Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > Unlike many journalists practicing today who believes in a desk job or > "research" on a computer screen, an old school journalist wants to have > first hand impressions, gathered from talking with real people and from > going on location. > That is true.
Although in the case of mainstream cold fusion, many of the people who did the work are dead of old age. You can't talk to them. Also, it is science -- meaning it is bunch of numbers on paper. Not something you get on location. Go look at an experiment and all you see are numbers on a screen. If you are mass media reporter, and not Rob Duncan, you probably cannot tell the difference between excess heat and a mistake just by looking a the screen and the equipment. That's why "60 Minutes" sent Rob instead of trying to suss it out themselves. The journalist who takes your opinion about the character of Rossi is not > worth his salt. He needs to find out the facts for himself as a service and > a sacred duty to his readers. > I agree, but in the case of Rossi, anyone who thinks they understand him is wrong. Except possibly Mrs. Rossi. As for "the facts," Rossi, like Steve Jobs and Edison, exudes a powerful reality distortion field. As Churchill said of Russia, Rossi is "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma." My guess is that anyone who bets against Rossi will probably be sorry. Very, very sorry. He is a lot more right than you might think. That's what my intuition tells me. I learned a long time ago not to ignore intuition, but not to fully trust it either. - Jed
