The Korea Times
I used to jump from one media outlet to another to try to understand what's going on in the world. Even when reading about the same subject matter, there seemed to be variance and disparity in reporting which turned me into a fact finder. Fact checks are very time-consuming. The best way to know what is going on in the world is to be there. Of course, that is impractical for most of us. For example, Siavash Saffari, a professor at Seoul National University mentions that because of internet blackouts, reaching his family in Iran is extremely difficult. When brief phone calls are possible he gets on-site information from friends and family members experiencing the menace. The rest of us, with or without confidence, must rely upon media outlets to tell us. Much nonsense is presented to us, bordering on bias, leasing, and propaganda, or "phony claims" as Saffari mentions. We must consider the source and read between the lines — that is, use inference to try to understand what is meant by something that is not stated or written explicitly or openly. I euphemistically call the nonsense "ba
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