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   From: huntres23@optonline.net   
      
   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.   
      
   --   
   Ed Huntress   
      
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