[65047] in Cypherpunks
L.A. Times articles, etc.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dale Thorn)
Mon Sep 9 18:26:26 1996
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 11:30:35 -0700
From: Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
I'm sure everyone is familiar with how newspaper articles are not
necessarily "pure" news, i.e., they're often slanted toward a particular
point of view.
Go back a few years, maybe 20 or more, and look at the front page of the
L.A. Times (or probably any big-city paper). Many or most news pieces
written by UPI, AP, etc., now 100% are written internally.
What y'all might want to think about is not just slanting and bias, but
how certain people and organizations can actually *plant* a phony story
on page one of a major paper like the L.A. Times. Go back a few months
and check out the front-page article on real estate prices in the Calif.
"Ventura Keys" area. Totally false. Story alleged that prices were
"skyrocketing"; prices actually were absolutely flat, after having
fallen by 35% or more in the previous couple of years.
Whoever authorized this story, if they didn't get a big kickback or gain
some points for some future operation, then I can't imagine why they
would print such a thing.
I hate to suggest anyone become more cynical than they already are, but,
the front page(s) of a big-city newspaper are some of the most valuable
real estate in western civilization, so do the math....
