Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Wading through verbiage

One thing I should really like my Google predictive searches to be able to do (sometimes) is exclude all established news media sites. I am thinking particularly of stories such as the recent outrage about the sex offenders register, but it applies equally to government initiatives, statistics & scientific reports (especially medical ones).

Sometimes it is quite easy to track down the source documents, by going directly to the relevant web site – Supreme Court, National Statistics or Hansard for example; the BBC is also pretty good at providing relevant links. But at other times it is extremely difficult to wade through the torrent of journalistic interpretation.

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