Put a little more effort into it
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/20/dee.obit/index.html
CNN is currently running this obituary about movie star Sandra Dee. Now, normally I'm all for people using the Internet as a means of getting a new piece of information, but this obituary is different. The only source CNN uses is the Internet Movie Database, an essentially user-created Web site where those who watch movies can post about all of the boom mic and editing errors they see in every film. Hardly a paragon of qualified research.
CNN doesn't give a firm date on the actress's birth but cites two different dates taken from Web sites (which it does not name, aside from IMDB). They are willfully failing their jobs as factgatherers (I'm not going to say that the death of a movie star from the 60s is particularly newsworthy). A simple request to see a birth certificate would solve this age variance problem.
The Internet has the potential to be a great source of information, but I'm still worried that the news organizations are relying too much on other people -- especially Internet people, who don't need to have any experience in anything to make a Web site -- to do their reporting.
CNN is currently running this obituary about movie star Sandra Dee. Now, normally I'm all for people using the Internet as a means of getting a new piece of information, but this obituary is different. The only source CNN uses is the Internet Movie Database, an essentially user-created Web site where those who watch movies can post about all of the boom mic and editing errors they see in every film. Hardly a paragon of qualified research.
CNN doesn't give a firm date on the actress's birth but cites two different dates taken from Web sites (which it does not name, aside from IMDB). They are willfully failing their jobs as factgatherers (I'm not going to say that the death of a movie star from the 60s is particularly newsworthy). A simple request to see a birth certificate would solve this age variance problem.
The Internet has the potential to be a great source of information, but I'm still worried that the news organizations are relying too much on other people -- especially Internet people, who don't need to have any experience in anything to make a Web site -- to do their reporting.
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Oh great, the line between unbiased reporting and shared opinion are getting blurrier.
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