Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 08:49:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Spy plane crash?

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, N Lynch wrote:

> --- "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com> wrote:
>> I'm always skeptical of reporters' abilities to get
>> facts straight.  I've
>> seen too many stories where they got them wrong to
>> believe otherwise until there's confirmation.
>
> If reporters can't get it right, how could something
> be confirmed?  Who DO you trust?

Three or four reporters, plus your commonsense understanding.  Reporters
have no perceptions you and I don't (and sometimes a good deal less sense
or objectivity).  As John W. Campbell once said, "If somebody told me he
had a pound of pure titanium oxide, I'd take his word for it and borrow
some if I needed it.  If he told me he had a pound of pure cerium oxide
I'd be surprised and do some chemical checks before I used any.  If he
told me he had a pound of pure americium oxide, I wouldn't even walk
across the room to prove him a liar."

-- Dick Eney

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