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| Re: What is the oroximate cause of the latest college shooting? by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 10/04/2015, 6:24am PDT | ||||
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Roop wrote: Well, it does get reported, and while maybe it's not prominent in the nightly news on the 4 major broadcast networks and the three major cable/satellite news networks, the newspapers do report it, and while that doesn't make it as famous as the evening news, realize that newspapers are the first draft of history, and has the advantage of permanence and large-scale third-party storage. Care to find out what, say, the three major networks reported on this day in 1965? Unless the video tapes were kept it is unlikely we know (make that very unlikely; thr networks went through cost cutting rounds in the 1970s and 1980s and started erasing and reusing their 3/4 inch video tapes because they were expensive and nobody figured those old programs would ever have any value, or in some cases were never recorded in the first place), but you can go to either your local public library or the Library of Congress near me in Washington, DC and find your entire newspaper from its inception through today stored on microfilm or in copies if it's too new to be on film. I've actually looked at microfilm of the first issue of the Times of London going back to around 1760. In fact, I've seen the equipment available to do OCR scanning of microfilm in order to bring almost all newspapers into on-line digital storage, as the DPI rate had to be fairly high to make the newspaper readable on a microfilm player, it's more than adequate to provide excellent resolution to OCR old newspaper articles back into text, and typically the machines are fast enough they can run the microfilm at about a foot a second, or OCRing a complete newspaper page in about the two seconds it takes to run it past the scanner. So the information is there and isn't going to be suppressed, it takes a desire to learn all the facts, not just the ones that are supported by your biases. As I have done on several occasions, as I'll explain in a different thread. |
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What is the oroximate cause of the latest college shooting? by 10/02/2015, 8:50pm PDT  Re: What is the oroximate cause of the latest college shooting? by 10/03/2015, 11:17pm PDT Re: What is the oroximate cause of the latest college shooting? by 10/04/2015, 6:24am PDT Re: What is the oroximate cause of the latest college shooting? by 10/05/2015, 5:16pm PDT Instant celebrity for the shooter has nothing to do with it? by 10/04/2015, 10:16pm PDT Re: Instant celebrity for the shooter has nothing to do with it? by 10/05/2015, 5:01pm PDT |
