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From: dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Is Journalism Dying?
Message-ID: <442@cylixd.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 13:22:41 EST
Article-I.D.: cylixd.442
Posted: Tue Nov  5 13:22:41 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 05:27:32 EST
Reply-To: dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby)
Organization: RCA Cylix Communications , Memphis, TN
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I read the following in Barron's (10/25/85 edition):

"...there are a handful of money managers who know how to get useful...
information from these machines without becoming dependant..."


Okay, one misspelled word; so what else? How about a totally senseless
sentence?

"My point, rather than the machine itself, is the huge and ever-growing
reliance on the computer to tell the manager all that he needs to know."


And, a little later on, a misprint:

"It is no more of a magical machine that the oiuja board."


PICKY, you say? Yes, if it were a little small-town paper or church
bulletin I found these abominations in. But I expect to read a paper
like Barron's without being assaulted with bad spelling and sentences
which make no sense even upon the 10th reading. I have noted errors
similar to this in the Memphis newspaper, which didn't surprise me; but
now these gremlins are popping up in respectable newspapers who should
know better. I find it shocking and obscene. I am writing my congressman.


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