Re: learning Arabic in the 17th century

Le Fri, 02 Jul 2004 16:21:15 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> écrivit :

>Raymond Roy wrote:
>
>> Because I am very wary about Western sources. Most Western medias are
>> not even able to re****t correctly on other Western realities (for
>> instance on Quebec where I am from), let alone about radically
different
>> cultures. If for instance the Spiegel re****t I just read in German on
>> Quebec realities (which I know well) sounds false, why should the
>> article next page on Jordan be right? I guess this applies to most
>> medias.
>
>Magazine writers are hardly historians.
>-- 

True, but yet, sadly, for 95% of people, magazines represent the sole
source of information...

You mention 'magazine writers', 'magazine' probably meaning 'weeklies'
or 'monthlies'. Imagine now 'dailies', written under extreme pressure...

Raymond

>Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@[EMAIL PROTECTED]