Gwern asked:
Would #2 require independent, differing articles, or would reprints (of stuff over the AP, say) count towards this? This would be a relevant questions for at least one BLP I remember being discussed here recently.
I debated that with myself before posting. The truth is that I am not sure. What do other people think?
Danny
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On 4/20/07, daniwo59@aol.com daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
I debated that with myself before posting. The truth is that I am not sure. What do other people think?
If a respected source like the AP is reprinted widely, its reliability is likely to be high, since the other people are willing to take the risk of publishing it.
-Matthew
On 21/04/07, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/20/07, daniwo59@aol.com daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
I debated that with myself before posting. The truth is that I am not sure. What do other people think?
If a respected source like the AP is reprinted widely, its reliability is likely to be high, since the other people are willing to take the risk of publishing it.
*gag* *choke*
No. The AP counts as *one* source.
- d.
On 4/21/07 1:25 AM, "Matthew Brown" morven@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/20/07, daniwo59@aol.com daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
I debated that with myself before posting. The truth is that I am not sure. What do other people think?
If a respected source like the AP is reprinted widely, its reliability is likely to be high, since the other people are willing to take the risk of publishing it.
With the Internet offering "free paper," many newspapers and other media outlets essentially republish on their Web sites everything that comes off the AP wire. It's not possible to claim any significance to an AP wire story being posted on the Web sites of, say, 50 different papers. It's just an AP wire story that's everywhere. That doesn't mean all 50 different papers deemed it "newsworthy," it just means it got flashed on the wire.
-Travis Mason-Bushman
Matthew Brown wrote:
On 4/20/07, daniwo59@aol.com daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
I debated that with myself before posting. The truth is that I am not sure. What do other people think?
If a respected source like the AP is reprinted widely, its reliability is likely to be high, since the other people are willing to take the risk of publishing it.
I would still be cautious about it. Has anyone ever taken an AP article, and compared the subtle changes and differences that arise in each newspaper that uses it, even when the motivation is to trim the article to fit the available space?
Ec
Things get even worse when they use an old wire article and cite a kid as being 9-years old when they've turned 11 in the mean time. I've seen it happen. I so much prefer birthdays over ages...
On 21/04/07, daniwo59@aol.com daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
Gwern asked:
Would #2 require independent, differing articles, or would reprints (of stuff over the AP, say) count towards this? This would be a relevant questions for at least one BLP I remember being discussed here recently.
I debated that with myself before posting. The truth is that I am not sure. What do other people think?
An AP story is still the same AP story. The fun comes where someone rewrites a wire story but doesn't actually do any independent journalism, making it look like two...
On 21/04/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
An AP story is still the same AP story. The fun comes where someone rewrites a wire story but doesn't actually do any independent journalism, making it look like two...
Even better are living bios with an erroneous factoid with lots of news articles referencing it, because they copied each other, and so the subject can't get it removed. What fun!
Anyone who thinks a newspaper is automatically a reliable source is on crack.
- d.