To List and all: Instead of using the comments section, you can use the "Correction" button that is on the WP article's page.
Here is where the link leads: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/interactivity/corrections/ With enough "corrections" sent, maybe they'll realize how bad that AP article is. -Yinan On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Michael Gilmer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi List, > > The WP article's comment thread is now overrun by racists with a > political axe to grind and a bunch of lunar-landing conspiracy nuts. > > Between the racism and the ignorance, it will be impossible to post a > comment that corrects any misconceptions printed in the article. I > posted a comment about the legality of lunar meteorite material and it > was buried under an avalanche of hillbilly racism and moon-landing > nutjobbery. > > I cannot help but cringe for our nation when we represent ourselves in > such a fashion. > > Best regards, > > MikeG > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Galactic Stone & Ironworks - Meteorites & Amber (Michael Gilmer) > > Website - http://www.galactic-stone.com > Facebook - http://tinyurl.com/42h79my > News Feed - http://www.galactic-stone.com/rss/126516 > Twitter - http://twitter.com/galacticstone > EOM - http://www.encyclopedia-of-meteorites.com/collection.aspx?id=1564 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > On 6/24/11, Yinan Wang <[email protected]> wrote: >> Before people start going off on the WP and shaking their angry fists, >> notice that it's an AP article. >> >> Essentially someone at the Associated Press writes it, various papers >> subscribe to it and just pull material and publish it as filler. >> >> Yes, the WP should probably fact check the articles they pull, but >> like most major newspapers, they don't have the time. It's a minor >> human interest story that probably made page 12 of section B of the >> newspaper or something. >> >> -Yinan >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:53 PM, JoshuaTreeMuseum >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I thought the dust on the tape was the only legal to own and sell NASA >>> lunar material. >>> >>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/missing-moon-dust-found-in-st-louis-auction-business-returned-to-nasas-johnson-space-center/2011/06/23/AGhR1zhH_story.html >>> >>> >>> Phil Whitmer >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> ______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > ______________________________________________ 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
