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Just the facts.

Publication: Canadian Speeches
Publication Date: 01-MAY-03 		Format: Online - approximately 1031 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Just the facts.(news quality related to journalists'' training not media ownership regulation)(speech by Neil Seeman, director of the Canadian Statistical Assessment Service)(Excerpt)(Transcript)

Article Excerpt
The media are criticized for misleading and inaccurate reporting of economic, technical and policy research, and statistical information. Regulating media ownership won't do anything to improve matters. What's needed are better educated and trained journalists. Excerpts from evidence presented May 27.

I come to you in my position as director of the Canadian Statistical Assessment Service, which is a project of The Fraser Institute and operates out of the Institute's new offices in Toronto. A large part of our mandate is to encourage better coverage of public policy issues in the media, specifically, by studying how the media report on empirical research and communicate quantitative information.

The Institute decided to launch my particular project last year because we felt that the pace of policy development -- as you no doubt appreciate -- is extremely slow and yet the speed of the media today is extremely fast, and increasingly faster in this age of...

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