Here's the URL for the NY Times story in yesterday's paper: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/20/business/20road.html
Beth Benoit University System of New Hampshire ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul C. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 11:57 AM Subject: Re: Annie Jacobsen > Herb Coleman wrote: > > > It the story that I find suspicious or at least hysterical. My bet is > > that when a serious news organization (if there are any left) > > investigates we'll find that Ms. Jacoabson was trying her creative hand > > to show how people come to believe what they believe or some such excuse. > > There was an article in the NYTimes yesterday, by a "Joe Sharkey". I'll > copy a little of it here: a google search should lead you to the whole > thing, I imagine. Tentative skepticism seems to be the mood of the day. If, > after this publicity, it turns out to be a hoax, I think Ms. Jacobsen is in > some serious trouble. > > Paul Smith > Alverno College > Milwaukee > > What Really Happened on Flight 327? > By JOE SHARKEY > > Published: July 20, 2004 > > > > > > > > > > There is no doubt that something out of the ordinary happened on Northwest > Airlines Flight 327 from Detroit to Los Angeles on June 29. The plane was > met at the airport by squads of federal agents and police responding to > radio messages from the pilots about concerns that 14 Middle Eastern male > passengers had spent the four-hour flight acting suspiciously. > > But was the episode a dry run for a terrorist attack, as is now being widely > suggested on the Internet and on talk radio, or an aborted terrorist attack? > Or was it an innocent sequence of events that some passengers, overcome by > anxiety and perhaps ethnic stereotyping, misinterpreted as a plot to blow up > their plane? > > > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
