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From: gh@ai.toronto.edu (Graeme Hirst)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: The Newspaper Effect.
Message-ID: <89Sep19.123413edt.2449@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
Date: 19 Sep 89 16:35:12 GMT
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In article <1989Sep14.152608.24946@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> "The Newspaper Effect:  when you read a newspaper article on a topic you
> know a lot about, it's *always* *wrong*.  Consider the implications."

I recently spent an hour talking to a reporter from Regina who wanted to
know all about machine translation and related topics.  (This was in
connection with the GigaText fuss.)  I later saw the article he wrote,
and found it to be both fair and technically accurate.

Cynicism is fine (I do it for a living), but don't let it overwhelm you.
Not everyone in the world is a bozo.

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