Re: Denial

• Subject: Re: Denial
• From: Strebe@aol.com
• Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 03:59:53 EDT

Ralph Salomon <salomon@worldviewmaps.com> wrote:

>If anyone has seen the Christian Science Monitor article on map collecting,
>there is a quote from me in it which I find most embarrassing. Thus this
>disclaimer:
>Weird!  The author spent about 20 minutes talking to me and I never said
>any of the things she attributed to me.  I was commenting on two Linschoten
>map of Africa, but not with the Gee Whiz factor.  Furthermore, I WAS NOT
>dressed in a safari suit - as I recall it was a pair of slacks and a 
>shirt.  I don't own a safari suit!

Not terribly surprising, now is it? It's a most regrettable fact that I have 
never -- not once -- read a mass-media article about something I had direct 
knowledge of that was correct in every particular. Usually it's incorrect in 
many particulars. The ratio of incompetence to tendentiousness varies from 
article to article (and can't necessarily be known by the reader) but 
nevertheless one or the other or both seem inevitable, and both usually seem 
to present themselves in discouraging liberal quantities.

I suppose journalists would have to get paid more in order to attract people 
with the wits and intellectual integrity to accurately describe reality. 

Regards,
daan Strebe
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