Raymond Roy wrote:
>
> Le Fri, 02 Jul 2004 13:41:28 -0700, "Bill Bonde ( ``There's sun****ne in
> my stomach'' )" <stderr2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> écrivit :
>
> >
> >
> >Raymond Roy wrote:
> >>
> >> 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...
> >>
> >So what sources of information should you take as true if you can't
take
> >Spiegel as true?
> >
> Thinking in terms of 'truth' or 'falsehood' is a little exaggerated. I
> do not mean that what the Spiegel writes is not true, but is is
> sometimes very superficial and far from reality. I know it for a fact.
> Still, I keep reading it every day :)
>
> Whatever country you are from, and if you speak any foreign language,
> try and read what is written in any feature article of any media
> elsewhere about a particular situation in your home country. Try not to
> laugh. Try and find me some articles that are not *completely* cut from
> reality. It often sounds like the journalists write their articles on
> the plane, or even before, on their way to the foreign country, and go
> there only for the photographs... Then again, photographs can be biased.
>
> Or try the other way round: read a lot about a country in the media, and
> then go there... Try this with Brazil for instance.
>
> Even English Canadians journalists (with the exception of Ray Conlogue
> and Taras Grescoe maybe) can't even get a single right line on French
> Canada, their neighbour land. Imagine them writing on the Fidji Islands
> or Bhutan...
>
> More often than not, the re****tage are kebabs of clichés...
>
> Go try and tell me. I sincerely wish you prove me wrong!
>
> But we are getting far from linguistics... :)
It's got nothing to do with foreign countries or foreign languages. Read
_any_ newspaper account of an event you were at, and you'll barely
recognize the event.
And you're not posting only to linguists.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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