On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote: > ss wrote, [on 1/31/2010 7:55 PM]: >> On another note - you (and I and I presume some others on silk) are freaks >> who >> read more than one paper. That is how you discover that the same news has >> appeared in all the media. No?
I am a freak when it come to a critical look at journalists (and politicians). Furthermore, I recently finished reading a critical book about the journalists and the press coverage of the 1972 US Presidential elections. > Speaking for myself, most news I get is from online sources (I do read > the ToI for entertainment value while having breakfast). A site like > google news makes it quite easy to see if a story has been repeated > across multiple sites. Google News does help get multiple points of view through its clustering mechanism. Thaths -- "Marge, you being a cop makes you the man! Which makes me the woman... and I have no interest in that, besides wearing the occasional underwear, which as we discussed is strictly a comfort thing." -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar Chandra Slacker Without Borders
