Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Please note that I did not say that all mainstream media is opposed to cold >> fusion. >> > > Nor did I say that they were. I said "there is no mainstream." It's a myth, > an appearance, a phenomenon without boundaries. However, sometimes these are > useful.
I think you are quibbling. This is a bit like saying there is no Democratic Party because the Democrats are unorganized and they seldom agree among themselves. Okay, the Party may be nebulous but they have a headquarters and they welcome contributions so that makes them a Party. Mainstream media, where ever its boundaries lie, consists of television, newspapers, magazines and books that sell in the millions and that most people watch or read. Perhaps you have to draw an arbitrary line and say a newspaper is mass media if it has more than 200,000 readers. The point is that such media has enormous influence on society and it reaches far more people every day than I have reached with LENR-CANR.org in 7 years. This tremendous difference in scale gives them abilities and influence far beyond mine. I hand out 5,000 or 10,000 papers a week, year after year, and have no measurable effect. CBS "60 Minutes" devotes 15 minutes to the subject and doors fly open to researchers all over the country. You might compare the mass media to "very large animals." Yes, there are many different sized animals and it is impossible to say where on the continuum you reach "very large," but when you get up to elephants, let us say, you find radical differences from the rest of the animal kingdom. Such as the fact that few predators can hurt a healthy elephant. (One of the largest animals is Homo sapiens, although we tend to think of ourselves as small.) Also, whether mass media reporters mean to attack or are merely being lazy, the effect of their articles is to hurt the field. And they will not accept information "spoon fed" from me. > My favorite example of a journal with a split personality was the Journal >> of Fusion Energy, September 2004 issue which has an attack on cold fusion on >> page 161 and a long paper about cold fusion in China by X. Z. Li On page >> 217. >> > > What is the attack paper? (I know about Li's paper.) Is it available > on-line? > It was an editorial comment. I do not know if it is available on line. I did not upload it. I will scan it and post it here. Remind me if I forget. - Jed
