[UA] Is God A Carp?

[Joe Littrell]

At 09:33 PM 3/18/2003 -0500, Michael Dinowitz wrote:
> > 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?
>Did they talk to the guys or did they report that someone talked to them? I'm
>doubting their research in the first place. I'm doubting their ability to look
>into what community it is and find out who is 'in the know'. It took me less
>than a few minutes to get a two step report from THE MAN in the know in the
>community. Couldn't the times or any of the others do the same?

Michael, have you read the Times story?

> > 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.
>Lets see. Did I say I'd talk to people and get exact details? Did I do so? Did
>the times, who has a responsability to report truth do any of what I did? I
>readily admit that the initial things I heard were wrong.

And yet, not having done any actual research didn't stop you from 
pretending that you knew the 'details' that 'the media' had gotten wrong. 
And you still keep talking like you haven't read the Times article.

Maybe I'm just missing some part of this - are you trying to say that 
*nothing* in the press accounts is true? That the principals never made the 
claims regarding the fish, and that 'the media' just made up the whole 
thing out of thin air?

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