# Le 14/02/09 à 18:35, sipakv a écrit :
comment savoir quels sont les 10% de ces rumeurs qui sont "vraies"?

and to enlighten you, rumors may not be "news", but the uncertainty, the fear and instability fostered by rumors are indeed newsworthy.

http://globalvoicesonline.org/20...e-antananarivo/

# Le 14/02/09 à 22:52, Barijaona a écrit :
Agreed, but in such circumstances, Malagasy fatalism is a feature, not a bug Weird, but true.

After a few days, you get much more used to sort between "probably false" and "to be checked" pieces of information.

Much more difficult to do from abroad, I recognize...

I don't want to mock anybody : I have friends and relatives abroad ; it is very difficult to describe acurately the situation to them. There are so many problems, that you tend to "forget" them quickly, and you realize that what seemed very troublesome wasn't.