Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:36 AM 2/27/99 -0800, you wrote: >The example which Chomsky trots out over and >over is the number of column inches which the New York Times devoted to >the stories in Cambodia and in East Timor. The ratio was something like >100:1 (in any case, a very large number). As the great Missourian Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens, author of Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer and Innocents Abroad) once said: "There are lies, damnable lies, and statistics." Or something like that. Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Canadian DOS prompt: EH?\>