PhilBy - anonymous journalists?

[Kingaroo]

PhilBy, in a thread on urban myths, you said something like "I have been online for 8 years and have hardly read a newspaper in 7. I find it frightening the influence that anonymous journalists have on this nation." Are you suggesting that the Web is more reliable and less anonymous than newspapers?

[Coobeastie]

You can get the news on the web. Most providers have news sections on their own homepages, and then you have the major news outlets like the bbc/cnn/fox.

[gessoo]

Prefer to read the news on the web (BBC News) myself and listen to the Radio or TV News. I am aware that the News can be biaised by these two media but Newspapers are so full of all sorts of other rubbish apart from the news.

[jump79]

The Web has a lot more accessible information in comparison to the newspapers, while newspapers also tend to give a less objective opinion as there is limited space to allow for all areas of the topic to be covered. The Web has endless links and past stories etc. on the same issue so you end up getting much more via that in the end.

[Artemis]

I get all my info of the web. I buy one newspaper a week. The Saturday Telegraph

[PhilBy]

I am certainly suggesting that the web allows one to dig deeper to find a more actual account of the news..... so my answer would be yes!

[Kingaroo]

I'll grant that it's easier to track down archived stories on-line than by keeping a stack of newspapers in the house, and it is convenient to search online to see what other sources say on the same topic (if you want to take that initiative)....

BUT do you think CNN's web site (or BBC's or any other news source) is any more objective or less anonymous than their printed version? It's all the same writers!!!!

ALL news reporting is biased (note, biased is not the same as untrue), even if only by what is considered worthy of inclusion and what is left out. And lots of completely unsubstantiated stuff appears on the Web because there is no one supervising. The NY Times gets in a heap of trouble once every few years for publishing (print and online) something untrue. Do you think most Web sites can claim such a low rate of inaccuracy?