<OT> -- WAY OT Re: So it goes . . .

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 15:32:15 -0500
"Andrew L. Gould" <algould at datawok.com> wrote:


> 
> No.  We have free press here -- not just freedom from governmental 
> interference, but freedom from professional standards of unbiased
> reporting.  Basically, ratings rule.

Of course it is free. The problem is that it is also free to report what
gets best ratings and free to not be balanced. All free. But not always the
best source of the complete story. I was not implying that it was not free.
More that it was commercial, with all the problems that could bring to a
news industry where ratings and not accuracy are the driving force.

A few good reads are books by BBC's John Simpson. He states the problems of
modern news gathering and what some of the issues governing accuracy and
completeness are.




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