> Gathering information about events in the world is very much the
>same process. If you use enough sources, you tend to get a bunch of
>data that indicates one general interpretation, with a few outliers
>that need explaining. When the same sources consistently create these
>outliers with the same divergent pattern, *then* you can feel safe
>discarding that source and focusing on those that typically return
>information close to the actual truth.
Or you can conclude there are too many people with the same agenda trying to
spin interpretation in a particular direction.
For example, I believe we all accept as true a statement that a hurricane hit
New Orleans a few years back and that people were killed and property was
destroyed. After that we have to view stories on it through the various
filters applied by various segments of the media. The primary spin being that
it was George Bush's fault... if not the hurricane itself, at least the massive
damage. Little attention was paid to the non-functioning welfare state of
Louissiana or the city's incompetent mayor who let school busses get flooded
rather than use them to get people out of the area as the storm approached.
These are stories, but not often told outside of FoxNews.
The big story is the failure of FEMA, which being a federal agency has trouble
getting out of its own way let alone helping anyone. Yet even those pushing
the FEMA story used it to bash Bush rather than realize how foolish it is to
expect a federal agency to get a job done quickly and effectively under ANY
circumstances. The point is, with the mindset of the press (and there is a
general mindset of media types) Bush is the reason FEMA didn't function and
this wonderful agency only needs the motherly touch of Hillary to let out its
inner efficiency and effectiveness. <gag>
--
Larry Miller
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