Re: Ooops! Is Pravda for real?

From: Bruce Howlett (brucehowlett@northnet.com.au)
Date: Fri 15 Nov 2002 - 08:06:04 GMT

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    Pravda sure makes some entertaining reading. Being an Aussie I picked up on one story claiming 70,000 Australians claimed their religion was "Jedi" in our recent national census. A quick search revealed these 2 articles from much more reliable sources, but I still have not verified the number. Still, it sounds like a fairly dramatic memetic event!

    http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3110124.NSF/24e5997b9bf2ef35ca2567fb00299c59/86429d11c45d4e73ca256a400006af80!OpenDocument

    http://abc.net.au/public/s662981.htm

    Regards,

    Bruce Howlett

    PO Box 1103 Armidale NSW 2350 email: brucehowlett@northnet.com.au phone: 61 2 6775 5542 mobile: 0409 711 303
      ----- Original Message -----
      From: Scott Chase
      To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
      Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 4:42 PM
      Subject: Ooops! Is Pravda for real?

      In a recent post I offered this URL:

      http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/11/14/39531.html

      which is a short blurb on Putin's attitude towards Islamists.

      Yet after reading the next three stories, I think I'll re-consider this as a
      source of reliable information.

      http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/11/13/39456.html

      http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/11/12/39415.html

      http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/11/14/39518.html

      [blushes]

      Is this *the* Pravda I've heard of before? I'm not used to reading Russian
      sources, but the above articles seem a tad far fetched to be taken
      seriously. I'm not sure how to evaluate the article on Putin given these
      articles. Grain of salt time I suppose.

      If this is *the* Pravda, it might be interesting to read just as a cultural
      comparison with some of our supermarket check-out line tabloids in the US.

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