6.6 Oz News
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This article is from the soc.culture.australian FAQ, by Stephen Wales with numerous contributions by others.
6.6 Oz News
Kym Horsell (khorsell@ee.latrobe.edu.au) regularly posts Australian News
extracts to soc.culture.australian. Here's what he has to say about it....
[KH]
Welcome to Oz News
This sometime service attempts to summarise local and international
news of general interest to Australians and, in particular, to the
editor. ;-) News items are gathered daily from a number of major
Australian newspapers, TV networks (including American NBC and ABC),
and other sources including just plain rumour. All sources are usually
disclosed in the body of the article concerned, and material is almost
always used without permission. An attempt will be made to include
articles of interest to the readership as well. But no guarantees can
be made on this score.
Generally gross editorialising is enclosed between [], but entire
articles are generally summarised from other sources so various
editorial bias will creep in from time-to-time. For this the editor
makes no apology whatever. ;-) Quotations appearing between "" in
articles may be from EITHER speakers heard/seen on TV or radio, or
from the text of newspaper reports. The sources of quotations should
be apparent from context, but the editor can't guarantee this will
always be so. Non-English speakers may be translated incorrectly and,
in any case, some paraphrasing may occur since tape recordings used
for final preparation are of a poor quality (i.e. the acoustics of
lounge rooms is pretty poor -- esp when dogs and kids may be playing
in the background).
The publication schedule is roughly 2 times per week, with about 100
lines of text associated with each day's news. On slow news days
previous or random articles will be inserted at the discretion of the
editor.
In short, people, you are getting what you pay for here.
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