Since when are News outlets considered primary sources? Doesn't say much about the NY Post if they don't know the definition of a primary source. Archives, photographs, audio recordings, video recordings, journals, letters, diaries
speeches, oral histories, speeches, and etc, are what I was taught to be primary sources. All else is hearsay.
Deleted my post after seeing yours. Here is what I wrote:
In what universe are these regarded as "primary" sources in the first place. Documents, videos, transcripts of speeches, testimony of eyewitnesses, persona recounts of individuals regarding their actions [recognizing that memories are faulty] are primary sources.
Thucydides already knew this in the 5th century BC and depended on two witnesses for all events he recorded.
Since when are News outlets considered primary sources? Doesn't say much about the NY Post if they don't know the definition of a primary source. Archives, photographs, audio recordings, video recordings, journals, letters, diaries speeches, oral histories, speeches, and etc, are what I was taught to be primary sources. All else is hearsay.
Deleted my post after seeing yours. Here is what I wrote:
In what universe are these regarded as "primary" sources in the first place. Documents, videos, transcripts of speeches, testimony of eyewitnesses, persona recounts of individuals regarding their actions [recognizing that memories are faulty] are primary sources.
Thucydides already knew this in the 5th century BC and depended on two witnesses for all events he recorded.
Anything can be a primary source if you're lazy enough.