Stephen Bain wrote:
On 7/10/06, Fastfission fastfission@gmail.com wrote:
- being printed by a respected newspaper means that at the very least
the newspaper has put their own capital and respect on the line for a story. This of course does not guarantee truth *in the slightest* but does get closer to accountability of information than you have elsewhere on the internet (where there is generally no real accountability).
This is the crucial point. Someone can trust an article in the New York Times about as much as they trust the New York Times itself.
About as far as I can throw it.