[UA] Is God A Carp?

[Joe Littrell]

At 02:03 PM 3/18/2003 -0500, Michael Dinowitz wrote:
>Due to who I was talking to and who he was talking to, I do not believe 
>that it
>was being covered up. The question now is how the story became such a 'real'
>thing and why the various newspapers ran the story without checking their 
>facts.

You mean like talking to the guys who said it happened and then to a number 
of community leaders and residents? Seriously, Michael, I know you think 
that the NYT (and apparently the Yiddish Forward) has a hate on for the 
Jewish people, but what would you consider due diligence for this?

And for that matter, aren't you guilty of the same sort of thing you're 
accusing the newspaper of? Without talking to the principals involved, you 
wandered in here with your FOAFtales and your anger about the newspaper 
getting a bunch of details wrong about an event you now say didn't even happen.

The question now is how the story became such a 'real' thing (Actually, 
that's not the question. If what you say now is true, these guys hatched an 
early Purim joke or somesuch which quickly gained the status of an urban 
legend and spread through a tightly-knit international community.) and why 
you spread the story without checking your facts.

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