Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: The Newspaper Effect.
Message-ID: <17698@looking.on.ca>
Date: 20 Sep 89 04:13:22 GMT
References: <141@isgtec.UUCP> <89Sep19.123413edt.2449@neat.cs.toronto.edu> <5019@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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Class: discussion

In article <5019@ubc-cs.UUCP> manis@grads.cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis) writes:
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>I always try to be helpful when dealing with a journalist. It isn't
>his/her fault...

Sometimes it is his or her fault.  More often than you think, getting
a 'good' story is more important than getting the right story.
This isn't cynicism, but the story of hard experience by myself, and
my family members, a few of whom are/were highly prominent journalists.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473