[OT] Re: [Full-disclosure] Re: Re: George Bush appoints a 9 year old to be the chairperson of the Information Security Deportment

[pauls at utdallas.edu]

--On August 29, 2006 6:56:02 PM -0400 Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:20:35 CDT, Paul Schmehl said:
>
>> Hezbollah tells a story.  BBC repeats it.  No effort is made to see if
>> the story is actually true.  But it's not bias.  Sure thing.
>
> That's called sloppy journalism, when you don't bother checking.  Bias is
> when you *do* make an effort to check out the story, and then decide
> which version to run with.  There's a difference.
>
Now why do you suppose a reporter wouldn't bother to check?  And why do 
you suppose his editors wouldn't check to see if he checked?  Are they 
*all* sloppy?

> For *that* matter Paul, *you* are showing bias (by your own definition),
> since you didn't bother actually finding out if it was a sloppy reporter
> or an actual attempt to slant the facts..
>
Well, when a news outfit is consistently "sloppy" and almost always in the 
same direction (anti-Israel and pro-Hezbollah, for example), then I judge 
them to be biased.

You're welcome to believe that they're not, if you so desire.

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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