Primary Source News: Minister Farrakhan on Libya

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Minister Farrakhan on Libya

Yesterday there was a press conference at the UN Plaza Hotel in which Minister Louis Farrakahn, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, and Viola Plummer spoke about Libya.

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In historical scholarship, a primary source is a document, sound recording, video recording, original work or other source of information that was created at or near the time being studied, often by the people being studied. In this sense primary does not mean superior. It refers to creation by the primary players, and is distinguished from a secondary source, which is a historical work, like a scholarly book or article, built up from primary sources.

Given that in the modern age we have vast amounts of information available, the question often arises, "What can we know for sure?" The Internet and information technology have made primary source materials more widely available than ever before, yet the presentation of the news is too often commentary with little substance.

The interviews, government documents, statements, art and images we are providing represents the raw data that is the news. A picture of the news that only examines primary sources is, of course, incomplete. But a picture that only involves debate and opinion may lose sight of what the story actually is.