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Re: [Phys-l] journalism

Especially reporting about enemy nations.

The reporting about life and liberty in Chile was execrable.


bc there from the March parliamentary election (wherein Allende increased his plurality) to three days before the golpe de estado.

On 2011, Jan 14, , at 10:03, John Denker wrote:


We are especially sensitive to
science and technology reporting....

However, it then makes you wonder how much of
other reporting is factually correct.

In my experience, almost none of it. There are occasional
instances of journalistic courage and rectitude, such as
the Pentagon Papers and Watergate, and I deeply respect
that --- but it isn't something you can rely on.