Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Our largest newspapers in Denmark ran a series of critical articles one of the largest Dansih companys that also happend to be one of the larges share holders in the same newspaper - as the editors did not remove the series of articles the large company sold all shares to a company from norway so now our largest newspaper in Danmark is a Norweigan newspaper. As Norway came at a pretty good place on the "freedom of press"- list, I guess we are safe for now. Tarek Charara wrote: >De B. D. Colen <bdcolen@earthlink.net>, le jeudi 13 novembre 2003 à 09:53 GMT : > > > >>Marc, the role of the press it not to "protest," but to report. >> >> > >B.D., >the press also "transmits" information that was not verified by their staff. Aren't you tired of the crap that is given by government officials who request to remain anonymous. The ratio of information that comes from "anonymous" vs. verified information must be 70 to 30. I'm guessing, of course. When I read the NYT or Time Magazine, I sometimes feel that the information given is more or less biased. Here (in France) the situation is that articles can be taken out of a magazine because an advertiser does not agree with it. I've seen it happen. I've heard (this is a documentalist friend at a major TV station reporting) that information has been strongly altered to suit management's political views. > >Freedom of press? Yes, the press is free to inform, but that doesn't mean that the information is correct or unbiased or even true. > >Tarek > >Tarek Charara >------------- >site: http://www.pix-that-stimulate.com >expo: http://www.orients-unis.net >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html