Re: Polls - a question for Mike-REPLY

[Stewart Farber <radproject@madriver.com>]

rick jacobi wrote:
> 
>          Reply to:   RE: Polls - a question for Mike
> 
> This is a common problem with the media.  There have been many times, in
> my experience, where an AP or UPI reporter will garble a story, publish a
> bogus number or quote an unfounded assertion and that will be picked up
> and published in smaller, less sophisticated papers that use the AP/UPI
> stories as backgrounders.  These will be published over and over again and
> will surface years later as real numbers, doctrine or facts.
> 

Mark Twain said it best a century ago:
"A lie can race its way around the world while truth is still tying its
shoes"
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