The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #164112   Message #3924039
Posted By: GUEST,Observer
13-May-18 - 03:46 AM
Thread Name: How reliable is Folk History ?
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: How reliable is Folk History ?
rom Steve Gardham

The problem with any media, both now and in the past, is not so much what they do tell us as much as what they don't tell us.

How do you know what you are not being told if you were not there, or unless you have not studied the facts of the matter from all perspectives?

At least folk material and street literature often give a slant that is more in tune with the people,

Only some of the people.

and as we have seen with some examples given here, they cover things that the established media ignore or deliberately hide from us.

What examples given here?