What do journalists know?

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On January 9 DGENCO@JOVE.ACS.UNT.EDU wrote:

> Those who are members of the newsgroup may write anything that they
> want and it is often a forum like the L.  Many people has out new
> ideas that may lack the though of a good journal article.

A good journal article? What is to say that a journalist has hashed out
his/her ideas or that the journalist knows anything about the subject
that he/she is writing about. We all know that you can find evidence to
support any belief or any side of an issue.  One week "John Doe" may
write that the Eco-system of the ocean is on the brink of near disaster
because he writing an article about pollution and the next week his 
article could indicate that the government is doing a fabulous job taking
care of the environment to support an article about Al Gore or some
other capitol hill nut.  The journalist gets paid regardless of whether
or not he is an expert and his journal is "100% Fact".

I'm not saying we should openly accept ev. from the Net but I think that
a debater has actually thought out the arguement, discussed it with    
teammates and certainly even after a few months knows more about the ocean
that a Journalist.
  
Matt Barreto
Eastern NMU

(Come on, even RUSH has a book, I think we're all smarter than him!!)

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