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Dennis Greene wrote: > > Joe and Charlie, > > Your comments on the accuracy and reliability of web sourced > information are well made. Information sourced from other media > is subject to the same cautions, but I admit it is easier to determine > the status of a book or magazine/journal. I have strong reservations > about anything I read in the press. Through the years there have > been 4 or 5 occassions when events of which I have detailed first > hand knowledge have featured in the news. On each occasion the > facts have been wrongly reported. On one occasion (admittedly a > 'human interest' story) the only points where the story and the facts > touched were the name of the venue, the time of the event and the > accompanying photograph. The rest of the story was pure fiction. I > wish it had been true, it was a damn sight more interesting than what > actually happened. > > It has long been my practice on encountering a new reference source > (eg an encyclopedia, on-line or otherwise) to assess its reliability by > looking up something I already know about. It is frightning how few pass > even so simple a test. > > If life is indeed a journey, than every few hundred metres we need to > put up a "Proceed with Caution" sign. > > Dennis. > > ++++++++++++++++++++ > Dennis Greene 47/10 > [log in to unmask] > http://members.networx.net.au/~dennisg/ > ++++++++++++++++++++ Dennis, I couldn't agree more about reliability of the news media. whether newspaper, magazine, radio or TV. Don't trust anything less than a DIRECT quote from a known authority, preferably present in person. I'm always wryly amused by any of the idiot "anchor" clowns on TV, even the big names drawing 6-figure salaries, who never contribute anything beyond inane babble, and often can't even read their giant cue cards correctly. BTW, did you see the one-line mention in last week's TIME of a "new" implantable pacemaker device that offers some help for PD symptoms? Well, duhhh. Cheers, Joe -- J. R. Bruman (818) 789-3694 3527 Cody Road Sherman Oaks, CA 91403-5013