[WikiEN-l] Online Newspapers Considering Subscription Model

[Ray Saintonge]

Carcharoth wrote:
> Some stuff in newspapers is really horribly
> unreliable. Books as well. But the best books are nearly always better
> than newspapers. Even if a book is written based in part on newspaper
> reports, it should go beyond that and establish firmer reliability and
> more research into whatever is being written about.
Newspapers (especially local ones) remain most useful and reliable on 
things that don't get into books.  They are often information that is 
not controversial at all.  Obituaries, for example, may be the only way 
to establish that an author has died when we are researching the 
copyright status of his works.  Sometimes local circumstances about a 
national issue are completely ignored by the wider circulation press.

Newspapers can more easily distort information they receive from press 
services. This can be done quite innocently as a style improvement that 
changes the meaning of the information.

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