[jambutty]

Originally Posted by katex

Oh dear Jambutty, making judgements on hearsay are you ?



" That also makes the incident hearsay, doesn’t it? Do we also call it hearsay when a report in the media states what so and so has said? No of course not we take such reports at face value until it can be shown that the report wasn’t accurate " .. your quote from another thread.

According to the OED:
Hearsay - noun - information which cannot be adequately substantiated; rumour.

The question is, is a report in the newspaper or on the TV or radio hearsay/rumour?

If the answer is yes then you, me and most posters have been commenting on hearsay in this and many other threads.

But I don’t think that a report in the newspaper or on the TV or radio is hearsay, in the accepted definition of the word. Whereas reporting what someone said what someone else said or did is hearsay.

In the butty issue the reporter reported what was told to him. The shopkeeper made a statement and so did the school head. Was that hearsay? Did other people comment on what the head stated and also the shopkeeper? The answer is yes they did. So if I am commenting on hearsay, so are other people. So go and pick on them also. Or is this yet another childish “Nah! Nah! Nah! Nah! Nah! Jambutty is wrong!” attempt?

So it really depends on what you understand the definition of hearsay to be.