Try Canada's Globe and Mail or Britain's Manchester Guardian. The former is
one of the finest newspapers I have ever read. Other than the city edition
of the New York Times, I have yet to find an American newspaper worth
reading.
Susan J. Wittrup
Volunteer Coordinator
Tate Geological Museum
Casper College
Casper WY 82604
Heidi Carroll wrote:
> I must admit, I am uninformed. I do not read the newspaper every day.
> At some point, I did receive a daily newspaper, but most of the time
> they laid on the front steps in their plastic bags until they were
> collected and tossed in the trash on garbage day. I also try to avoid
> watching the news. It is frustrating and causes a lot of stress. What
> ever happened to the professional journalist? It seems anymore that
> news companies are hiring fewer educated journalists, perhaps to save
> money. I open a newspaper only to find tons of mistakes, particularly
> grammatical ones. These people can't seem to write a complete sentence.
> Most of the articles make absolutely no sense - with both incomplete
> sentences and bad grammar, they seem to lack significant information
> that would clarify the article. What college, if any, did these people
> attend that they did not even learn basic English language. I realize
> that many of us speak it daily, but that does not mean that we use it
> correctly. There is nothing less professional in this type of job than
> not having a solid grasp of the language.
> I also find it very frustrating the way the news sensationalizes
> everything. Just give me all of the facts - no slants, no biased
> opinions, no taking sides - just the facts. I have yet to find a
> newspaper or newsprogram that gives the facts without sensationalizing
> them, without trying to sway readers, that gives all sides of a story.
> Example: Lately on my local news, there has been a story of a police
> officer that shot a man. The officer is being investigated again. The
> news is making a big deal out of this 4 year old event making the police
> officer sound corrupt and racist. But the fact that the victim was
> fleeing, running from the cop, in a stolen vehicle no less, has been
> downplayed quite a bit. And of course the reason the police officer
> shot the man was because the victim was a minority, not because he was a
> criminal running from the law. If I am not mistaken, fleeing is a
> shootable offense. Personally, I'm tired of this story and really don't
> care about it anymore. Enough!
> I suspect that this is why many people choose not to read the
> newspapers. They are frustrated with bad journalism, bad grammar, and
> blatant sensationalism.
> Thank you for reading my rant. If anyone knows of the kind of
> newspaper or news program that I would want to read, please let me know
> about it. I would like to be informed, just with lower blood pressure.
> H. Carroll
>
> >
> >You wrote: Isn't that why we still read different newspapers?
> >
> >Don't we wish! Twenty percent of the U.S. population reads a newspaper
> on
> >a daily basis. That figure drops to fifteen percent in Texas. I ask
> just
> >about everyone with I come in contact, if they read a newspaper every
> day.
> > I am astonished at how many do not; even more so when I ask if they
> read a
> >weekly news magazine. How on earth can people make informed decisions
> if
> >they do not read?
> >
> >
> >------
> >Robert Handy
> >Brazoria County Historical Museum
> >100 East Cedar
> >Angleton, Texas 77515
> >(409) 864-1208
> >museum_bob
> >[log in to unmask]
> >http://www.bchm.org
>
> >Subject: Re: Your TOP EVENT / DECISION that shape
> >
> >Interesting point. I would like to get cable just so that I can brush
> up
> >on my Greek by watching Antenna straight out of Athens, but it comes
> with
> >20 other channels I could care less about, so I am still holding
> strong,
> >no cable in my house. I do watch ABC News but I also switch to PBS to
> >listen to the BBC to learn more about world events and to get a
> different
> >slant on things. Switching from the visual media, Isn't that why we
> >still read different newspapers? To get different viewpoints? That's
> >why TV really hasn't been the greatest invention, you can still tune it
> >out.
> >
> >O
> >Olivia S. Anastasiadis, Curator
> >Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace
> >18001 Yorba Linda Boulevard
> >Yorba Linda, CA 92886
> >(714) 993-5075 ext. 224; fax (714) 528-0544; e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> >
> >On Wed, 3 Feb 1999 11:18:39 -0400 Jane Sproull Thomson
> ><[log in to unmask]> writes:
> >>I find it kind of interesting that the major events you mention all
> >>happened
> >>in the US. One of the reasons I had our cable disconnected was that
> >>my sons
> >>seemed to be getting the impression, since most cable stations are US
> >>based,
> >>that all world events happen in the US, and if it didn't happen in the
> >>US it
> >>wasn't important. Now we only watch the CBC news, which gives us a
> >>Canadian
> >>slant on events worldwide and uses BBC as well as ABC news reports.
> >>Many
> >>Americans take this dominance for granted...many of you probably don't
> >>know
> >>that at this moment, the US and Canada are engaged in a trade dispute
> >>over
> >>Canada's most recent attempt to protect its cultural industries
> >>internally,
> >>and the US's insistence that we have no right to do this.
> >>What role do museums have in resisting cultural imperialism? Should we
> >>even try?
> >>
> >>
> >>At 10:44 AM 03/02/99 -0600, you wrote:
> >>>In my opinion the invention of the Television changed everything. No
> >>>longer did people have to rely on print or word of mouth the learn of
> >>>events throughout the country or world. We could watch Kennedy being
> >>>assasinated unlike those who learned of Lincoln's death. We could
> >>watch
> >>>the horrors of the Vietnam war instead of listening to reports over
> >>the
> >>>radio. The television puts us at the delivery of septuplets and the
> >>>doorstep of death penalty vigils. I believe that with the TV's
> >>delivered
> >>>to our home brought more immediate knowledge than had ever been
> >>known,
> >>>even those who are illiterate in this day and time can remain
> >>>knowledgeable through the TV; but we also lost our cultural
> >>innocence.
> >>> How much good news is reported in comparison to the amount of bad.
> >>How
> >>>many comparisons to the violence on television to the rise in
> >>violence
> >>>involving our youth, i.e. school murders in Jonesboro, Arkansas, do
> >>we
> >>>hear. There are people today who do not have computers but how many
> >>>homes do not have TV's?
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>From: Roger Smith
> >>>Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 1999 4:08 AM
> >>>To: [log in to unmask]
> >>>Subject: Your TOP EVENT / DECISION that shaped th
> >>>
> >>>With Millennium 'madness' looming, I thought it might be rather fun
> >>to
> >>>invite LIST members and individuals to submit their pick of a single
> >>>event
> >>>or decision that, in their opinion, made the most impact upon this
> >>>Century?
> >>>
> >>>The recommendations no doubt will be purely subjective ( perhaps a
> >>trifle
> >>>quirky) and should come with a short sentence of justification!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>The responses will be collated and published in the April edition of
> >>>GLOBAL
> >>>MUSEUM ( in the FORUM section).
> >>>To save bandwidth, could I invite you to mail your contribution off
> >>the
> >>>list
> >>>to:
> >>>[log in to unmask]
> >>>
> >>>I am picking we will have a wide range of choices and l Iook forward
> >>to
> >>>receiving the nominations
> >>>
> >>>Roger
> >>>
> >>>http://www.globalmuseum.org
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Jane Sproull Thomson
> >>
> >
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