Palin and book banning again

Carol justcarol67 at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 12 20:32:13 UTC 2008


Alla wrote:
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/story//ap/20080912/ap_on_el_pr/palin_librarian
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Please beware, source is exactly what it says - news article on
Yahoo home page, nothing more, nothing less. If something is incorrect
in  that article, I would not know and I did not cross check any other
 sources today.
>
Carol responds:

Since the writer is a reporter for the Associated Press, I'm pretty
sure that it's as reliable as journalism gets. At least, it's not a
hoax giving us a list of all the books ever banned in the U.S.! The
page contains a number of links to other stories about Palin,
including snippets from her interview with Charles Gibson. I think
that's the best way to determine where Palin stands. Look at each
author's credentials and the newspaper or agency from which each
article came. If it's the National Inquirer, run the other way! If
it's a blogger, ignore it. If it's a national news magazine or
newspaper, there may be a slight liberal or conservative bias, but it
will be generally reliable. AP is probably the most objective source,
at least their mission is to provide reliable, unbiased news coverage.

http://www.ap.org/pages/about/about.html

In short, just because this article appeared on Yahoo doesn't mean it
originated there.

Carol, who once wanted to be a journalist but hated interviewing people!





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