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

--On August 29, 2006 6:56:02 PM -0400 Valdis.Kletnieks@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@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/

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