Re: Health Notice

[Don Coombs <dcoombs@uidaho.edu>]

Legitimate editorial pages sometimes run a correction when they have
presented material which is wrong, even when that information is included
in a quote from someone who was quoted accurately.

If this (my statement just above) is wrong, just email me and not the
whole list. I suspect most of the people on the list now feel they could
have gotten along nicely without my observations about the Wall Street J.

Don H. Coombs
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Moscow ID 83843
(208) 882-8720

On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Robert Hoffmann wrote:

> At 11:21 AM 1/14/99 -0800, you wrote:
> >I was referring to policies of the Wall Street Journal, not of the Daily
> >News. I understand that what was run in the WSJ was not an ad.
> 
> I recall Bill London saying that this was a "quotable quote" type of entry.
>  Unless the WSJ was in error about Dennis Avery having said it, there would
> be no cause for correction.  Kind of like if they quoted Helen C. saying
> that white male humans are the most endangered species, they would probably
> not post a correction (even though white male humans are probably the most
> widely dispersed life form on earth, going into the deepest ocean trenches
> and to the top of the world's highest mountains, and everywhere in between
> in numbers that wouldn't get them onto the ESL).
> 
> 
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