zellner@stsci.edu wrote:
: But my real fear is that the quality of reporting may be equally
: bad in other domains, like politics!
It does take a perverse form of optimism to have any faith in the news
media when almost every time they cover something you _know_ about,
they get it wrong.
Maybe they're wrong that often covering subjects
in which I'm not an expert? Naw, it just couldn't be.
Reporters like Bill Greider from the Washington Post and Him
Naughton of the New York Time for instance, had to file long, detailed,
and relatively complex stories every day -- while my own deadline fell
every two weeks -- but neither of them ever seemed in a hurry about
getting their work done, and from time to time they would try to console
me about the terrible pressure I always seemed to be laboring under....
If I could read your mind, love,
What a tale your thoughts could tell
Just like a paperback novel,
The kind the drugstore sells,
When you reach the part where the heartaches come,
The hero would be me,
Heroes often fail,
You won't read that book again, because
the ending is just too hard to take....
