Goodbye Broadcasting Magazine

[davideduardo]

Well...looks like that's not entirely accurate:

World Radio History – ויקיפדיה

he.wikipedia.org

Yep, Hebrew.

I did not know about this one, but I don't read Hebrew at all!

 

[davideduardo]

But I agree with someone who earlier posted that instead of discouraging its use in school research, it should be encouraged–so as long as it is stressed that Wikipedia is only a gateway to broader fact-checking and not the ultimate last word.

This is a good point: encourage students to recognize that not everything on the web is accurate. Show them how to look for verification of everything.

We should all view again "All The President's Men" where the story behind the story was the great effort by Woodward and Bernstein to get the verification that their editor and publisher wanted.

We seem to live in an era where something posted once on TikTok is automatically factual.

 

[K.M. Richards]

We seem to live in an era where something posted once on TikTok is automatically factual.

My doctors often accuse me of consulting "Dr. Google" when I want to know more about something they have told me. The difference between my doing so and (unfortunately) the majority of their patients is my selectivity of the search results.

If I want to know about potential side effects of a prescription, I go to the manufacturer's website and look at their documentation, because by federal regulation they have to disclose that. If I want to know about one of my own maladies, I tend to start somewhere related to same; for example, I have diminished lung capacity and learned a lot about it at the American Lung Association's website. Vaccinations? I start with the Center for Disease Control and add information from the National Institutes of Health. Beyond all that, for health information I tend to check the Harvard School of Medicine, the Mayo Clinic, and the like.

The real problem is not just TikTok but the internet itself. Too many people lack the ability to know where the reputable information is and filter out the hearsay and urban legends.

In fact, today's Pearls Before Swine was themed along the same lines:

https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/09/15

 

[yeoldeschool]

And therein lies the problem. If I write about myself or my website, I am totally impeded from being impartial by ego and self-interests. So is nearly every other human being.

Then how about using the translation of the Hebrew article, word for word, to create the English version? Then you can create an article for your archive yourself and say with a clear conscience it is completely unbiased.

https://archive.vn/H1yZg

In other words, sources that can either verify or, in the majority of cases regarding radio, disprove Wikipedia have no article at all!

Well, on the bright side, at least World Radio History is itself being well-cited by Wikipedia articles in general:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:wikipedia.org+"worldradiohistory"

 

[ixnay]

Returning closer to the topic, I became aware of Broadcasting Yearbook (A gold mine of broadcast info) before I became aware of the magazine. Does anyone else miss BYB?

 

[vchimpanzee]

Returning closer to the topic, I became aware of Broadcasting Yearbook (A gold mine of broadcast info) before I became aware of the magazine. Does anyone else miss BYB?

Well, I did. UNCC got a new one every year and I reported to them all the errors I knew about when I looked at it.

At the time, it was pretty much my only source of information.

I don't remember whether I saw Broadcasting Magazine first, but it was also at UNCC where I saw it. After I graduated, I continued to look at both there. I think there were other libraries that got the magazine.