Bread causes cancer?? (was Re: acrylamide, food additive)
Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
>Of course they're at fault. It is the journalist's job to track down the
>real facts, to research and to find out truths. I was a journalist major
>in college and I dare say that there are few real journalists left in
>our world.
So, Martha - do you like "The West Wing"? :-)
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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
>Judge someone's real job by what gets them sacked and what gets them
>promoted or more money.
And therein lies the difference between "job", and (a)vocation.
[And hey, you know, those running shoes are expensive, and a person can go
through 2, 3, 4 pairs a month if the ambulances are fast enough.]
>m> I was a journalist major in college and I dare say that there are
>m> few real journalists left in our world.
>
>What are you doing now? (rhetorical) Maybe these people you think of
>as journalists are doing the same.
You know, not to get off on a tangent (it's not, really), but I can *so*
relate to this. I happen to believe that a lawyer's job is to advocate for
their client to the extent that the *truth* allows (yes, really) - and
there are lots out there whose definition of "the truth" - well, is lots
more elastic than mine.
[WARNING: Off-colour story below.]
> a minor celbraty says she is no
>longer screwing the manager of the England football team.
For some reason this reminds me of a story my husband tells of a British
footballer who was minorly injured during the first half of the game, and
the coach said "we'll pull you off at half time", and the footballer said
"wow, at Tottenham we only get oranges".
>Anyway, In case of this research we can let the journalists off
>totally, they don't have labs and the months necessary to find out the
>real facts even if they were payed to do that. They did report that
>this wasn't peer reviewed.
Amazing that this is being swallowed whole cloth by so much of the
population, with little skepticism by the press, but your own Andrew
Wakefield's reports (fairly well documented) regarding the MMR vaccine have
received such a derisive reception. So much of it is political, eh?
Richard Caley
>> Judge someone's real job by what gets them sacked and what gets them
>> promoted or more money.
apme> And therein lies the difference between "job", and (a)vocation.
I thought a vocation was what you have when you don't have to get
payed and can't get sacked because your parents bought the living for
you?
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