Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] cloaked unsubstantiated statements (put up or shut up)
From: John Brownlow <deadman@jukebox.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 08:15:32 +0000

on 19/1/00 8:43 pm, Mark Rabiner at mrabiner@concentric.net wrote:


> They know that anything they say is meaningless unless properly qualified. Why
> write? Why talk?

> I would hope people on this list with a more solid background in Journalism
> will
> weigh in on this.

Ten years of the tough stuff, Mark.

Patient after patient tells you they've been beaten up in a psychiatric
hospital. They're all still IN the hospital. Whaddya do? Keep shtum? Your
argument says yes, all ethical journalistic practice says no.

Not exactly camera reliability, but you widened the terms of the argument.
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