On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com>wrote;wrote:
On 4/19/12, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
"You do realise that there have been over
5,000 newspaper articles on our
company in the last 10 years, and only three of them mention that product
recall?"
That might seem like a good point, but really, articles shouldn't be
constructed from surveys of newspaper articles. I know they are, in
practice, but they really shouldn't be. What is needed is something
beyond that, some indication that someone with the right credentials
has sat down and sorted through things and come to some sort of
independent conclusion. Some newspaper journalists do this, but not
many do.
Indeed, but there needs to be some measure of due weight, and for many
companies, newspaper articles and primary sources are all there is.
Andreas