Thread: GAO: Most forest thinning not seriously delayed by appeals
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Old 29-05-2003, 07:08 PM
Larry Caldwell
 
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Default GAO: Most forest thinning not seriously delayed by appeals
(Larry Harrell) writes:

The real tilt is: WHY DID SOOOO MANY NEWSPAPERS choose to disregard
the fact that many of those projects were "non-appealable"? Yet, they
chose to include them in the numbers of projects that weren't
appealed. Totally irresponsible news reporting, putting "spin" where
there is none. What could be next for Aozotorp? Postings from the
Enquirer?

Reporters are not interested in forestry. They are interested in doing
their jobs, which means providing their editor with their quota of column
inches every day. That generally means rewriting information that is
spoon fed to them by one interest group or another. Usually, the
interest group tries to conceal the signs of bias in slanted statistics
that the reporter can't analyze and still make deadline. Once it makes
print in a newspaper, the special interest group can point to the
publication as independent verification of their statistics, when they
made them up in the first place.

Larry, the truth is out there.....in the woods....not in your
newspaper.

Not since William Randolph Hearst.

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