paul dove via EV wrote: >> This guy sounds like a professional article writer.
From: EVDL Administrator via EV <[email protected]> > You say that like it's a bad thing. It's not. > > The word you're looking for is "journalist," or maybe "reporter." > > But it's true that good ones are scarce these day... Many so-called > journalists don't do the necessary background research to understand > the subject. They don't check whether what they've been told is > factual. They don't confirm that they've even heard the person they > talked to correctly. But they write the story anyway. > > Basically that class of journalist is a secretary, not a reporter. > Nothing wrong with being a secretary, it's just that we, as readers, > expect (and pay for) a different level of effort from a journalist. Most people don't want to pay for their news. They think they can get high quality news, right from the horse's mouth, for nothing. But if it's free, it's likely it came from the other end of the horse. -- Excellence does not require perfection. -- Henry James -- Lee A. Hart http://www.sunrise-ev.com _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
