On 7/10/06, Fastfission <fastfission(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
2. 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.
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