In "The Curtain", Milan Kundera writes: "Beyond the slender margin of the incontestable ..., stretches an infinite realm: the realm of the approximate, the invented, the deformed, the simplistic, the exaggerated, the misinformed, an infinite realm of non-truths that copulate, multiply like rats, and become immortal." Can we really distinguish today between truth and non?
Major news networks today have a particular bias when reporting the news. Even major networks such as BBC and CNN have a particular viewpoint. Do institutions like these define the "reality" that we see around us? Whether it is the reasoning behind the need for taxation or the reason for a war? A number of independent news media have come to fill the gap -- most accessible via the Web -- examples are Media Lens, Spiked On-line, Open Democracy and The Real News. Not that these are totally free of bias either. But somewhere between the "institutional" view of events and news from such Web sites lies reality! Judge for yourself.
About Me
- Omer Rana
- Cardiff, South Wales, United Kingdom
- Omer Rana is Professor of Performance Engineering at the School of Computer Science (Cardiff University). His research involves the application of intelligent techniques to distributed resource management. He is also interested in how techniques from machine learning can be applied to support computational science problem solving.
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