tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204863782883637837.post6596202983586619689..comments2024-03-27T20:51:11.303-04:00Comments on Accepting Ignorance: Applied Left/Right Definition: Journalism and the Accuracy Impossibility TheoremAlrenoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11119846531341190283noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204863782883637837.post-4960679179427350222016-01-08T18:00:52.077-05:002016-01-08T18:00:52.077-05:00I would suspect that only mutants ever reported ac...I would suspect that only mutants ever reported accurately. Anyone writing for a newspaper is fundamentally trying to shirk responsibility, meaning they're afraid of being held responsible. <br /><br /><a href="http://mitchellarchives.com/the-first-true-newspaper-in-history.htm" rel="nofollow">The first English newspaper</a> is apparently mainly about a plague, which, while dramatically less corrupt than present news, is something the readers could not effect, nor does it give enough information to be helpful in predicting how readers will be effected by it. There's also news about the house of commons, which seems hardly distinguishable from the wastes of time we see today. It's gossip for pay, which makes it fundamentally a lie, since it is pretending to be important. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relation_aller_F%C3%BCrnemmen_und_gedenckw%C3%BCrdigen_Historien" rel="nofollow">first non-English newspaper</a> is, translated, "Account of all distinguished and commemorable news." I suppose it may have been the newspaper equivalent of those first films, about children tobogganing, but I doubt it. Alrenoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11119846531341190283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204863782883637837.post-33155672870905487792016-01-08T16:33:58.861-05:002016-01-08T16:33:58.861-05:00Some questions: did the press ever report accurate...Some questions: did the press ever report accurately, and if so did something change, or is it another example of a system with its own decay built in?<br /><br />I speculated some years ago that the mass press was originally a by-product of information-collection done for investors who needed accurate information, and once they were no longer the most important audience, the constraints on inaccuracy and bullshit went.<br /><br />http://anomalyuk.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/flat-earth-news.html<br />Anomaly UKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04780148789321563441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204863782883637837.post-90516404102147093852015-12-30T15:33:33.388-05:002015-12-30T15:33:33.388-05:00Oh sure. There's more problems than substance ...Oh sure. There's more problems than substance in that tweet. However, it's what got me thinking about the issue.Alrenoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11119846531341190283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204863782883637837.post-19519209339948237022015-12-30T11:45:11.749-05:002015-12-30T11:45:11.749-05:00Christoph was the faggot who called me an Anime Fi...Christoph was the faggot who called me an Anime Fiend and refused, upon being corrected, to retract his monumentally ignorant statement. I haven't forgiven him.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16050831858972171741noreply@blogger.com