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   From: fitcat@optonline.net   
      
   "Ed Huntress"  wrote in message   
   news:qr2ot813h3suvi163nu4oqv7ms9u8ds5uf@4ax.com...   
   > On Tue, 9 Jul 2013 09:05:24 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>"Ed Huntress"  wrote in message   
   >>news:9avnt8d99ftsjjemv7eavpah7h94q8lkjn@4ax.com...   
   >>>   
   >>> And before you dismiss reporters/writers/editors, I'll remind you   
   >>> that   
   >>> I'm a reporter/writer/editor, and I check things like that out   
   >>> carefully before publishing anything. d8-)   
   >>>   
   >>> Ed Huntress   
   >>   
   >>But you have a traditional education.   
   >>   
   >>Read Yahoo News or Motley Fool to see what bird-brained articles the   
   >>young'uns write. They serve only as early warning canaries.   
   >>   
   >>jsw   
   >   
   > I don't think it's the education as much as a traditional background   
   > in journalism. I started as an editor for the only trade magazine in   
   > history that won the National Magazine Award outright (American   
   > Machinist, 1969). We took accuracy *very* seriously. At least three   
   > editors read everything before it was published, and the first two   
   > were responsible for checking facts.   
   >   
   > And then I spent 6 years as a medical editor, where one mistake could   
   > get an editor fired.   
   >   
   > The crap on the Internet is not written by journalists. They may be   
   > educated, but they have never absorbed the ethics and discipline of   
   > the business. They all want to be pundits, where anything goes.   
      
   And lazyassed pundits.....   mostly what goes is paraphrased press   
   releases..... and mebbe not even paraphrased....   
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