Rick Fochtman wrote: >I'll give you another oxymoron: journalistic integrity >Today, it's becoming rarer and rarer and I suspect will die out completely in >our lifetimes. :-(
Now, now. Lumping all journalists in one boat is as unfair as putting all computers into the same category. Some of us go to a fair amount of trouble to verify everything we write about. Having said that, I'll agree that *every* mainstream news story of which I've ever had first-hand knowledge got several significant and important facts wrong, such as names, ages, and confusing an employment address with a home address. Whether that's incompetence or just the rush to publish is unclear. None of them were malicious -- none of them improved (or hurt) the story for anyone who didn't already know those facts -- but it does speak to a certain lack of verification. ...phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
