Great Job, Maybe we can all learn something from this. Anne did a great job of researching the facts before posting the rebuttal. More importantly, she was elected by her peers to represent most of us publicly and was not acting in a self-promotional manner.
It is too bad W. Broad from the New York Times didn’t perform proper research before writing this fiction and passing it off as the Gospel truth. I think his Pulitzer awards should be retracted. His writings reflect poorly on the citizens of New York, the NYT and the rest of the media for that matter. He has demonstrated that his creative writing skills are only capable of producing nonsense at the cost of good people’s reputations. It is obvious that he could care less about the truth, only promoting himself and his ratings. I hope nobody is stupid enough to give him the time of day again when he requests interviews for his follow up piece. He has proven himself an adversary and someone to definitely avoid. It is a crapshoot when dealing with the press. Anybody with any long-term experience on the subject knows that former treasure hunters have, in most cases, undeservedly suffered greatly at the hands of the press. We should not make the same mistake. Simply calling meteorites treasure conjures up old ideas of looting, smuggling and lawsuits. Professional archeologist, who engage in treasure hunting never use the term treasure or attach price tags to objects publicly. Rock Hounds have learned the lesson and do not call themselves treasure hunters. Even after several decades, the tarnished image of treasure hunting still prevails. It is interesting that this reporter brought up Egypt where looting was real in the past and well founded. He then made the connection between meteorites and ancient treasure. Although meteorites are treasure, they go far beyond being mere treasure. They shouldn’t be referred to as treasure unless you want to open the doors on the past. It is best to learn from treasure hunters and disconnect from them publicly, at least in the media. I admit to being a former treasure hunter who has moved onto the more respected, at least for now, avocation of meteorite hunter and collecting. Meteorite Connoisseur, Adam ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
