re: depends.

Tom Brosz — 8/27/2005 3:18:27 AM (archived)

What takes some time is when I want to "deep research" something, which involves digging up obscure sources and documents, doing real math on data, and things like that. I'm not inspired to do it very often, and I prefer locating a link to someone that has.

For just standard news, it's pretty easy to find original sources for most news stories, and figure out what they left out to try and make their point. The most classic examples in recent times were the Kay and Duelfer reports on weapons in Iraq. The original documents shed a lot more light than the news stories did.

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Perfect example of Bush Administration's double-speak. - Bowser - 8/25/2005 5:04:35 AM
- Hey Bowser...get with the program will you? - Lindy - 8/25/2005 2:41:08 PM
- In point of fact... - Tom Brosz - 8/25/2005 9:04:25 AM
- re: Perfect example of Bush Administration's double-speak. - gbaikie - 8/25/2005 8:10:14 AM
- Most read past the headlines. Try it sometime. (n/t) - Sam F. - 8/25/2005 7:04:04 AM
  - Most DON'T read past the headlines. (n/t) - Bowser - 8/25/2005 2:03:21 PM
    - Old journalism classes' (aka "newspapers") guidelines - Mary Anne - 8/25/2005 5:12:15 PM
      - MA, Robert, Fox and Tom - great stuff here. Thanks! (n/t) - Tony - 8/26/2005 2:52:55 PM
      - Timeless lessons - Robert - 8/25/2005 7:12:36 PM
      - Guidelines are quite accurate. - Tom Brosz - 8/25/2005 5:30:22 PM
        
        Readers must take some responsibility. - Mary Anne - 8/25/2005 5:51:22 PM
        
        Active and passive: It's the screens - Fox - 8/25/2005 7:45:17 PM
        
        Screens and real estate - Robert - 8/25/2005 8:37:05 PM
        
        re: Screens and real estate - Tom Brosz - 8/26/2005 3:37:21 PM
        
        Oops. - Tom Brosz - 8/26/2005 3:38:32 PM
        
        And now that I think about it... - Tom Brosz - 8/26/2005 3:39:29 PM
        
        More - Robert - 8/26/2005 5:53:22 PM
        
        The News Junkie - Robert - 8/26/2005 5:45:10 PM
        
        Time? First round of the day, about ten-fifteen minutes. - Tom Brosz - 8/26/2005 6:58:18 PM
        
        Total? - Robert - 8/26/2005 7:46:14 PM
        
        re: depends. - Tom Brosz - 8/27/2005 3:18:27 AM
        
        fruitle - Mary Anne - 8/26/2005 5:13:33 PM
        
        "Contradictory" was the correct choice. - Tom Brosz - 8/26/2005 6:47:45 PM
        
        Much broader than that - Robert - 8/25/2005 6:26:38 PM
    - Most INFORMED people read past the headlines (n/t) - Sam F. - 8/25/2005 5:09:49 PM

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