Comments on: Ambiguity, in Defined Quantities

By: Lyricd

Lyricd — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:24:54 +0000

I think it's interesting to note that none of us really believe anything we hear in the mainstream news anymore, but it somehow continues to garner a huge audience.

By: Lyricd

Lyricd — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:11:13 +0000

Sounds like an excellent class. What was the professor's name?

By: Will Merydith

Will Merydith — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:00:53 +0000

This reminds me of a great logic professor I had in college. He taught the entire class by using real newspaper stores to illustrate examples of common fallacies. The students had the task of analyzing the news story, determining which fallacy (if any) existed, and then rewrite portions of the article to remove the fallacy (using correct logic and reasoning).

It was a real eye opener to the level of fallacious reasoning put forth on any given day in any given newspaper.

By: Sundar Raman

Sundar Raman — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:50:08 +0000

Heya Saffi, I LOVE the texture and smell of newspapers (may be a genetic thing from my printing-family background). In fact it's the one thing I've missed since I turned off all paper in lieu of blogs. But given the atrocious state of news reporting I just could not justify subscribing to a paper any more

I think there's going to be a time when physical media comes back. But that won't happen until journalism returns. And the only Journalism I've seen so far (barring NYT and WP) are online. So much better investigative reporting happens by bloggers. I think that's where we (FairfieldVoice) even have an opportunity – get back to reporting and journalism and maybe we can start inspiring people again. Yeah, grand visions, but that's how these things start, right?

By: Saffi

Saffi — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:21:38 +0000

This is a great post and observation! I would love to see the analysis you discuss (if it exists). I also so often get infuriated with CNN these days. I phoned my mom on Sunday and CNN had her scared into so many untruths that essentially resulted from their use of imprecise language or dangling statements/stories (without the context of the larger picture). Are they trying to compete with talk radio by being salacious?

Where's the News in CNN (forget about a J for Journalism)? Many are lately speaking of restoring journalism as a point of focus (over the type of media that presents it), which I find a noble effort.

We just renewed our subscription to The New York Times (delivered via mail to Fairfield) and appreciate that we can take our time to read the news and have more exposure to depth and context. Personally, I love a newspaper. We spent the Winter trying each to read the news off of our computers. That didn't work for me at all and my husband didn't pefer it . I need to have the physical paper in my midst (what a fossil…).