Steve Bennett wrote:
I find this statement "it is also one of the
world's leading
repositories of comical misinformation and nonsense." very misleading
and basically incorrect. I'd accept "It is also *potentially* one
of..." You feel like asking a journalist to start pressing "random
article" and to stop when he's found 3 blatant, ridiculous mistakes of
the type mentioned in this article...
Maybe we need to come up with an analogy to describe these errors.
Maybe something like cars on a freeway, which the vast majority of the
time works well. There are occasional breakdowns, but they don't
matter much, and get fixed pretty quickly. And just occasionally
there's a big wreck that lasts a few hours. That kind of thing...
As long as the press maintains its compulsion to apologize for looking
at us we can only bask in the publicity. What more can we ask of them
then that they get the url right? :-)
Ec