On 23-3-2015 19:50, Stephen wrote:
> On 23/03/2015 17:34, clipka wrote:
>> Am 23.03.2015 um 18:11 schrieb Stephen:
>>> On 23/03/2015 15:53, Nekar Xenos wrote:
>>>> It sounds luke they're trying to keep investors interested.
>>>
>>> Call me an old cynic if you like.
>>> It sounds like a journalist trying to make it interesting and alluring.
>>
>> Exactly my thought.
>>
>> AFAIK there are no commercial investors in CERN; like many fundamental
>> research institutions it relies purely on public funding.
>>
>
> In a way Nekar is right. We, as taxpayers, are the investors.
> Years ago I worked in the Newspaper industry. I have a very low opinion
> of most journalists. They will write anything to get a byline.
>
>
Hmm, yes and no. My father was a journalist, working in the foreign 
politics and arts branch. He was extremely critical about truth finding 
and so was very critical about many of his colleagues. In the course of 
the years I have met a wide lot of them and I must say that most were 
honest. However, the example by Nekar is typically one were the 
journalist did not know what he was writing about and only picked up a 
couple of catch calls he heard somewhere and wrote around it; or - 
current practice - the title did not refer to the content at all, which 
becomes obvious when you know that titles are not made by the journalist 
himself but by the layout staff.

-- 
Thomas

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