atw: Was OT: Culture - now truth and logic

There is a problem I find with ABC interviews - they are often one-sided
and often quite untutored - ie, they lack expertise in both the subject
matter and the practice of interviewing. It seems to take an inordinate
amount of time before an ABC interviewer develops these skills. But, in
the meantime, I find myself at odds with my co-viewers because of the
poor quality of interviewing/reportage. The advantage of ABC stuff is
that if there is a bias, the interviewer/reporter wears it proudly on
its sleeve.

Sure, the commercial channels pay more for their staff who are often
better tutored, more urbane - and then you have the [not so obvious]
bias with which to contend. All the better for testing your nascent
'crap detector'. [vide Bertrand Russell, Albert Einstein, Ernest
Hemingway, Bernard Shaw, Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner, Charles
Handy, at least]

So, I'm with Michael, here - but get your crap detector calibrated
regularly. Democracy is not a purveyor of logic - in other words, don't
just go for maximum efficiency, agreement or comfort or least argument.
I have a problem with any notion of 'balance' - if I take hard
empiricist view, there are only analytic and synthetic statements - and
what we are dealing with here are synthetic ones - for which there is no
absolute truth ever - vide Karl Popper.

Brian

Michael said
Well Arnold H and Tracy J-L,

1. It becomes all too easy to end up with a "head in the
   sand" / denial attitude if you cut off all news.
2. Yes, Tracy, ABC (Australia) and SBS TV are far less
   histrionic in their presentation than the commercial /
   cable networks, but you still need a balance of news
   from different sources to enable you to determine
   the inevitable bias, PR and propoganda that creeps in.




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