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Asking for the Impossible
Posted by Tim (more from Tim) on Wed, 9 Jun 2010 05:11:41
In Reply to: Corrections are nice but..., Noel, Tue, 8 Jun 2010 05:54:42
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Inaccuracy in reporting has been the norm, not the exception, long before there was even internet. Like I mentioned before, I was personally involved in a few instances with some of the top newspapers in the country, yet I found the reporter to quote me out of context every single time. BTW, I also worked as a newspaper editor for a few years, and know first-hand that journalists are trained/conditioned to put a "human perspective" spin (good vs. evil, david vs. goliath, rise/fall/redemption, etc. etc.) on stories, in order to sell circulation/ads/eye-ball time.
No one has perfect knowledge. It's like the joke about why not letting the government put together a panel of wisemen to set prices on everything from necessities to stocks to houses, so we don't have the price gyrations. Failing that, people came up with the "perfect market price" theory, assuming market price at any moment must be accurate; obviously false too. In reality, prices and information transmission are all just part of the information discovery process, something that needs to be constantly refined and improved upon.
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Posts in this Thread:
- new 9-5 crash test!!, jeff '04, Sun, 6 Jun 2010 14:23:52
- The badge seems to have survived fairly well., UpstateNY Bill, Mon, 7 Jun 2010 18:10:13
- Re: new 9-5 crash test!!, jeff '04, Sun, 6 Jun 2010 15:02:55
- wow check out the air bag inflation, vvack0matic
, Mon, 7 Jun 2010 08:00:19 - Heh, they changed the text and deleted the comments, AdamB
, Mon, 7 Jun 2010 02:53:02 - You and I know that, but how many others are aware?, EricG, Sun, 6 Jun 2010 20:46:11
- Re: new 9-5 crash test!!, ryan
, Sun, 6 Jun 2010 16:16:35 - Re: new 9-5 crash test!!, IrieTom
, Sun, 6 Jun 2010 16:07:51 - Re: new 9-5 crash test!!, AeroLady, Sun, 6 Jun 2010 15:23:03
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