Re: Media misinformation (was Thanks, Ruth (was RE: UF6))

[Stewart Faber <farbersa@optonline.net>]

George Bernard Shaw may have best summarized the key problem with newspapers 

[and now electronic media even more] when he stated 100 years ago that:



"A newspaper is an instituion that can't tell the difference between a bicycle 

accident and the collapse of a civilization."



Another germane quote/question for which I don't know the attribution is:



Q: "Do you know why they call television a communciations medium?"

A: "Because it is neither well, nor well-done"



Stewart Farber, MS Public Health

email: farbersa@optonline.net

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8/28/02 9:58:50 AM, "Richard L. Hess" <lists@richardhess.com> wrote:



>At 02:14 AM 8/28/2002 -0400, BLHamrick@aol.com wrote:

>>In a message dated 08/27/2002 1:25:39 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 

>>lists@richardhess.com writes:

>>

>>

>>>It was a mistake that wasn't repeated...and probably the closest the media

>>>in the U.S. ever came to hurting people (other than a couple of Jerry

>>>Springer or similar shock-shows where audience members were hurt or

>>>killed--I don't think that counts).

>







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