"Jim W" wrote
Janet Baraclough wrote:
from "JennyC" contains these words:

Imho trawling usenet archives for unverifiable soundbites
hardly
counts as research...or even, professional journalism :~}
Janet.

So what counts as serious research Janet ?
Surely the web is just as reliable or not as other sources
.........?

I referred to archives of usenet discussion groups, where
misguided
advice or opinion from an inexperienced ignoramus is recorded
together
with the careful observations of those who have learned from
experience.
A "researcher" with no personal knowledge of a particular
field,would
have the greatest difficulty in sorting the wheat from the chaff,
and
any conclusions he drew would therefore be suspect.
Janet

And who ever said journalists were 'professional' LOL;-))
// J

Yeah - look what happened at the new York Times :~)))
Jenny