Re:'Hitler Tamed by Prison' (1924)
by diego on Monday April 03, 2017 @01:21PM
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That is the point. Simply by choosing which facts to mention and which to omit you can create an extremely biased news piece.
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Omission of facts is not reporting the facts. That's the point.
Re:'Hitler Tamed by Prison' (1924)
by NikolaeVarius on Monday April 03, 2017 @04:05PM
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Yes it is.
How the hell do you report ALL the facts in any scenario?
Any publication in existance will have to pick and choose what to report in order to keep a article to a manageable level.
Do you think Scientific Abstracts are all factually correct? Hell no. There is actually a very well known issue with scientific experiments and articles where scientists will simply repeat experiments until they get a result that is within acceptable p-values and simply submit an article on that one experiment, ignoring every single time it was wrong.
Re:'Hitler Tamed by Prison' (1924)
by enraged_camel on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @01:31AM
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You don't need to report ALL the facts. You just need to report the pertinent ones. And the fact that domestic radiation is not fatal is pretty fucking pertinent to the passage in the OP.
Re:'Hitler Tamed by Prison' (1924)
by JetSpiegel on Monday April 03, 2017 @04:45PM
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Then any news piece must asymptotically approach infinite words.
Remember to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.