From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun May 11 2003 - 18:01:31 MDT
--- "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> wrote:
> Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> > Of interest regarding when the "system" fails and self-corrects:
> >
> > May 11, 2003
> > Times Reporter Who Resigned Leaves Long Trail of Deception
> >
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/national/11PAPE.html?pagewanted=print
> >
> > Gives one lots of food for thought -- if a system where there
> > are supposed to be checks and balances can fall on its sword
> > so effectively, one has to wonder about other systems (e.g.
> > scientific peer review) where one is supposed to be seeking
> > the truth or "authoritative" reports (the ETCgroup [RAFI] or
> > the Greenpeace/"Plant Research International") are worth
> > the paper they are printed on.
>
> You must be joking. Checks and balances? Reporting? Have you ever
> been reported on? They make up anything they damn well please. Fact
> checking by editors? A joke. Amateurs lie for reasons. Reporters
> lie to make their five column inches for the day.
There is an old Sikh saying: "A cobra spits, a Pathan speaks, who will
grow rich on the difference?"
Reporters lie not just to make their column inches. There is an
interesting 'novel' recently put out by another dismissed "reporter"
which is heavily autobiographical. They lie for many reasons: for an
agenda, to report not what happened, but what they think should have
happened, but many times just to tell a good yarn. They frankly don't
give much of a damn whether you object to how they misrepresented you.
Neither do their editors. I woman I know once rescued a kid from rising
flood waters in a gorge. The reporter who covered the story essentially
condemned her for keeping her infant in her backpack while she effected
the rescue, as if this made her a terrible mother and person rather
than the hero she was and is. When she confronted the reporter about
the facts of the situation, the reporter said, "I don't care what you
think, I decide what the real story is and there's nothing you can do
about it, bitch."
=====
Mike Lorrey
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