[meteorite-list] NYT Story ? Overseas and Local Distribution

From: Brian Cox <searchingforfun_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 13:34:33 -0500
Message-ID: <60F7C8C97BA64F6F99C85A2DE3D2B744_at_BrianPC>

Paul and list,

Thanks Paul for supplying the list with the various papers and websites that
are carrying the NYT article. I was especially disappointed to see "The
American Scientist" carrying the story with the first threw paragraphs and
then when you click on "see more" it goes to the NYT website with the entire
story and photos. I'm saddened that the American Scientist apparently didn't
do any legwork to review the story or do any of their own research before
blindly posting it. I'm guessing it doesn't take much anymore to call
yourself a scientist in America or the world. I'm sure Ben Franklin, Thomas
Alva Edison and Albert Einstein must be rolling over in their graves now.

I have been preparing a response to the article in the NYT and as others
have mentioned it may not do any good with the Times, but at this point it's
gone almost viral worldwide. It's a pity that there aren't more responsible
journalist out there.

I fear as Adam Hupe and others have mentioned that the damage is done. This
almost surreal smear campaign has taken on a life of its own and I'm still
curious as to why the writer Mr. Broad with the NYT decided to chose his
words so vehemently as to sound to critical and to apparently not give much
thought as to the sensationalism of how be constructed the article nor to
the outcome and repercussions of what would come to the meteorite community.

Hoping for a better rest of the week and month after this.

All the best!

Brian

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Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 6:48:33 -0500
From: "Paul H." <oxytropidoceras at cox.net>
Subject: [meteorite-list] NYT Story ? Overseas and Local Distribution
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?Overseas list members, if you have the opportunity,
please peruse the International Herald Tribune to
see if they picked up the story and run it in its entirety.?

By searching the International Herald Tribune web site,
I found that it was published in this newspaper on
April 4 at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/05/science/05meteorite.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=meteorites&st=cse

The entire story also appeared in the Sydney Morning
Herald as ?Souvenirs from space,? April 7, 2011,
http://www.smh.com.au/world/science/souvenirs-from-space-20110406-1d4g9.html

Also, it appeared at:

1. rssbroadcast,com, April 4, 2011
http://rssbroadcast.com/?p=40828
http://rssbroadcast.com/?p=40742

2. WA.today, Australia, April 6, 2011.
http://www.watoday.com.au/world/science/souvenirs-from-space-20110406-1d4g9.html

3. Yahoo News
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NorthAmexemObservers/message/10634

4. Daily Comet, Lafourche Parish Louisiana
http://www.dailycomet.com/article/NY/20110405/ZNYT03/104053033/1225/news100?Title=Black-Market-Trinkets-From-Space

5. A version of the New York Times story, ?Il mercato nero
dei meteoriti? appeared in the ?Post? on April 6, 2011,
http://www.ilpost.it/2011/04/06/il-mercato-nero-dei-meteoriti/

This entire text of this article is making the rounds
of the Internet. This is something that definitely needs to
be considered in any response. It certainly will make
preparing an effective response to the article quite difficult
as it is being reprinted, in some cases under different
titles and in different languages, in a wild range of media
outlets.

To further complicate matters, the link to this article is
being posted a number of web sites. For example;

1. Egyptology News at:
http://egyptology.blogspot.com/2011/04/black-market-trinkets-from-space.html

2. environmental reporting at:
http://word.emerson.edu/sprg11jr364/2011/04/04/black-market-trinkets-from-space/

and 3. American Scientist
http://www.americanscientist.org/science/pub/-1875

Yours,

Paul H
Received on Thu 07 Apr 2011 02:34:33 PM PDT