14 Although based on small numbers, some of the findings from the current study have a certain factual and methodological interest.
Beck's concern is that the media these days have no interest in factual reporting; they just mould the facts to suit their storyline.
In his essay "Bad News" (July 31), Richard A. Posner relies on shallow, cynical generalizations about us consumers of news (e.g., "The public's interest in factual accuracy is less an interest in truth than a delight in the unmasking of the opposition's errors").
However, the phrase government solicitors recommend – forbidding "any statement which is derogatory, defamatory and/or disparages or is intended to disparage the reputation of the employer or any other Government Department or Agency or the Crown or any of its or their employees, officers or agents" – will inhibit factual statements of potential interest.
My interests are factual and my recreational reading consists mostly of science and livestock publications.
"The Political Brain" takes a different tack than, say, "What's the Matter With Kansas?" by Thomas Frank or Al Gore's "Assault on Reason," which try to explain voter behavior in terms of self-interest and factual analysis.
In its article on South Africa, it used much the same language as the edition prepared in London but with some factual and stylistic variations: International interest centered on the trial of nine members of the "national high command" of the National Committee of Liberation and the Spear of the Nation organizations, who were arrested in 1963.
Providing factual information in the public interest is the media's mission.
To accomplish this, Wandered.space pulls point-of-interest data from Factual and route data from ArcGIS.
