VMs: Re: OT: FOCUS [was: Independent Research?]

["Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Barbara Barrett" <barbarabarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: 02 April 2004 10:53
Subject: VMs: OT: FOCUS [was: Independent Research?]


>
> > Rene wRote
> > Even serious journalists have to be read
> > with care. When I got a last-minute phone call
> > from the science writer of Focus (which I think
> > is on the serious side) and he inquired about
> > my opinion on Gordon Rugg's method, I indicated
> > that it had been exaggerated by journalists.
> > That may have shortened the call, in fact :-)
>
> Barbara Blithers;
> I know someone who worked on Focus, and still does the odd freelance
article
> for them. Focus is a sorta "tabloid" science mag, not on the sense they'd
> make things up, but in the sense of "popularised" and "dumbed down" (a lot
> of the staffers used to work on "Lads Mags" after all), and they thrive on
> sensationalism. If Rene had said "Gordon's got it all wrong!" making it
> personal, rather than the rather mild impersonal "the cliams have been
> exaggurated by the media" then he's probably have had a visit from a
> reporter and photographer!
>

Or maybe Rene could say "Gordon is a moron"! and change his name to Jilted
John.

> Barbara
>
>
>
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