[IP] Re: Attack on CS research by Chronicle for Higher Education

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: L Jean Camp <ljean@ljean.com>
Date: January 23, 2007 10:47:46 AM EST
To: dave@farber.net
Cc: ip@v2.listbox.com
Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Attack on CS research by Chronicle for Higher  
Education

_STENOGRAPHERS_ print BS exactly as it is fed to them when they know  
it is not true. Journalists are supposed to  be more than PR-vomiting  
automatons. Indeed you {Dave Wilson <dave@wilson.net>} have no self- 
respect to advocate that this is an acceptable standard.

There are "two sides" to the voting issue, just like "evolution" and  
"intelligent design" as well as the handful of experts who are paid  
to disbelieve global warming provide another side.  Paid, under- 
qualified shills are given equal time to the consensus of the   
scientific community. Under this standard, Holocaust deniers and  
historians should be given equal time. Because there are "two sides".

There simply are not two sides to many stories. That so many in  
journalism believe that this is acceptable does not make it less than  
a shameful printing of personal attacks and falsehoods. This kind of  
idiocy is why so many Americans do NOT believe in evolution and think  
the previous Iraqi regime was involved in 9/11.



On Jan 23, 2007, at 7:54 AM, Dave Wilson <dave@wilson.net> wrote:

> This story is not an attack by the Chronicle on anything. It's a  
> "balanced" story that gives equal weight to arguments from people  
> who are opposed to the use of electronic voting systems and people  
> who think they're fine. I don't know the author but this is a  
> classic journalistic "on the one hand, on the other hand" story (I  
> left CHE ten years ago and left journalism five years after that in  
> no small measure because of the limitations of this format; putting  
> the "official statement" in your story, even if you know it's BS,  
> can seriously erode your self-respect)..



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