On 25/07/07, David Goodman <dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Journals are professionals, with specialized training
and supervised
experience. They are taught how to work with things they do not
necessarily understand--in a sense, the very profession is the the
ability to go in and make sense out of something that is not
understood.
Some but not many WP editors have that skill also. A very few as
actual journalists, a few from related training (such as we
librarians), some from innate ability, but generally from experience
and attention.
That's the theory. Go and read a few science articles in mainstream
media and you'll soon realise that in practice things are very
different. Journalists think they can write about things they don't
understand and are generally wrong. Sound familiar?