[meteorite-list] New York Times Article

From: drtanuki <drtanuki_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 07:36:03 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <337145.59368.qm_at_web161204.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

Brian and List, Do some research and find the reporter`s email and the other "mis-quoted" researcher that was from Tennessee and send your email to both of them AND this list. Bring this onto the metlist and have them discuss here. Posting to this list as a one-sided choir is pointless. As far as the NYT article, unless someone posts on the same scale the damage is done; perception as viewed by the "public" and the scientific community IS reality! Best Regards, Dirk...Tokyo


--- On Wed, 4/6/11, Brian Cox <searchingforfun at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: Brian Cox <searchingforfun at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New York Times Article
> To: "Meteorite-list" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 7:57 PM
> Hi All,
>
> I'm just curious if anyone else has clicked on the author's
> name, William J. Broad under the title of the article,
> "Black Market Trinkets From Space" and waded through the
> thousands of articles that he has written alone or with up
> to four other writers. I went back to April 2009 and this is
> the first article I've found after searching through 15 long
> pages that has anything to do with Meteorites. The majority
> of his articles over the past 2 years have been in
> relationship to Nuclear Matters, such as Nuclear Arms in
> Iran, and most recently the Nuclear Plants in Japan.
>
> I'm curious why he even chose to write about Meteorites,
> and I am guessing that his editor told him to write it as a
> ( fill-in-piece ) for the boring $2.00 Tuesday paper, which
> doesn't get much circulation, since the majority of readers
> get the "Weekender" as you've seen advertised on TV with
> Friday, Saturday and Sunday or many people just get the
> Sunday Times.? The bottom line seems to be that he's
> almost what you might call a "Factory Line Writer" that is
> given an assignment and then just rushes it out for print. I
> don't know this as a fact about him, but it is fairly clear,
> and this is a type of writing for many large papers, TV and
> radio and this is how it is done. I'm not standing up for
> him and this horribly written article so please no vicious
> emails, but just stating that he doesn't know anymore about
> meteorites than a 5 year old does about how to launch?
> the Spacelab.
>
> It would be nice for him to write with an apology and
> corrections to his article, but I can't hold my breathe that
> long. I'm too old to wait for it and I'll probably be in my
> grave before that day comes. I feel the best way to handle
> this is to contact his editor or in the best case scenario
> the Editor in Chief to ask for a correction. The damage has
> unfortunately been done and we can't change what has already
> been so poorly written.
>
> All my best to all of you!
>
> Have a great day and may a meteorite land in your yard.
>
> Brian
>
>
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