I was once honored to hear a story from a man who lived behind the iron curtain
Posted by: Wayne in BlogsIt was a story about how he got the news. There was no real coverage of what was going on in other parts of the country from the state media. The coverage was what the state wanted you to know. The information for the most part was biased, or no information on certain types of issues at all.
AUTHORS NOTE ON BIAS: I am not sure that you can really get away from bias; perhaps it best to be as clear as possible with any bias. As a teenager I listened to shortwave radio. I was able to listen to the news stories from the VOA and the news stories from the country involved in the story. I heard headlines like: “Country A military jets converged on Country B ships” vs “Country B’s war ships strayed into Country A’s waters and were contacted by airplanes” describing the same event, and neither story contained a lie.
You could also try to cover both sides of a story but how many stories actual only have two sides?
Well without a media (broadcast or paper) that provided a complete story, what he and other did was turn to individuals that could give first person accounts. In his day truck drivers were people who crossed the country and you could engage them with questions about what is happening in other parts of the country.
Authors comments: I think blogs are taking on that role of providing first person accounts with different viewpoints.
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