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 [F] New York Times on the Web Forums  / Science  /

    Missile Defense

Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an application of science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable, necessary or impossible?

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rshow55 - 08:36pm Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14460 of 14461)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@.f28e622/16168 - - that depends on who cares - and who checks. Things are shifting fairly fast - and it is obvious that some posters recently mobilized care a good deal.

Why?

- - It may be that some journalistic usages will come under scrutiny.

rshow55 - 08:54pm Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14461 of 14461)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

If I were a New York Times stockholder who was not " in the family " - - - I'd be concerned.

May 15th 2003 | NEW YORK From The Economist print edition

Crisis management for a top media brand

QUALITY control problems can wreak havoc with any business, especially when a reputation for high quality is a crucial ingredient of its brand. Ask the New York Times, which is having to deal with its own version of Ford's dodgy Firestone tyres, and Coca-Cola's Belgian taste troubles.

The glitch in question is Jayson Blair

Times Reporter Who Resigned Leaves Long Trail of Deception http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/national/11PAPE.html

At the level of substance the recent piling on here is more serious than the Blair case. Certainly if gisterme has any signficant connectins to the Bush administration - and the paper knows that.

Manipulation of information, Jayson Blair style - was about small details. The issues that have long been in play here involve more than that.

14072 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.ZS4Vb4K3LMG.887247@.f28e622/15778 - - - The Jayson Blair scandal happened, in large part - because the NYT has a culture that is based on ascribed status - and not checking.

Maybe I'm wrong - and cantabb and Jorian319 are not salaried NYT officers or employees.

But if they are - the NYT organization should worry about what it is selling - and what implicit promises it is making to the people who buy the paper.

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