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

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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" 
href="mailto:pauls@xxxxxxxxxxxx";>pauls@xxxxxxxxxxxx</a> skrev:
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 cite="midCC787A38400B8C7471C2CA3F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
 type="cite">--On August 29, 2006 6:56:02 PM -0400
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" 
href="mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx";>Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx</a> wrote:
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  <blockquote type="cite">On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:20:35 CDT, Paul
Schmehl said:
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    <br>
    <blockquote type="cite">Hezbollah tells a story.&nbsp; BBC repeats it.&nbsp;
No effort is made to see if
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the story is actually true.&nbsp; But it's not bias.&nbsp; Sure thing.
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That's called sloppy journalism, when you don't bother checking.&nbsp; Bias
is
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when you *do* make an effort to check out the story, and then decide
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which version to run with.&nbsp; There's a difference.
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Now why do you suppose a reporter wouldn't bother to check?&nbsp; And why do
you suppose his editors wouldn't check to see if he checked?&nbsp; Are they
*all* sloppy?
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  <blockquote type="cite">For *that* matter Paul, *you* are showing
bias (by your own definition),
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since you didn't bother actually finding out if it was a sloppy
reporter
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or an actual attempt to slant the facts..
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  </blockquote>
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.
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You're welcome to believe that they're not, if you so desire.
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Paul Schmehl (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" 
href="mailto:pauls@xxxxxxxxxxxx";>pauls@xxxxxxxxxxxx</a>)
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Adjunct Information Security Officer
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The University of Texas at Dallas
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" 
href="http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/";>http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/</a>
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