[UA] Is God A Carp?

[Michael Dinowitz]

> 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?
And as for my feeling the times has a hate for Jews, I can back it up with their
own articles as described here:
https://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-gross031403.asp
As for the forward, just because its in Yiddish don't think it's a Jewish paper.
It's a socialist paper with Jewish roots, but that's besides the point.

> 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.

> 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.
Read above. I said I'd check it out. I did.
Could it have been an early Purim prank? Maybe. Maybe not. If you're willing to
pay for my travel, I'll head up to New Square with some references and talk to
some people (references will be needed at this point or else I'd just be another
tourist).


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