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Idea for Stem Cell Controversy |
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as usual, you tend to generalize.. |
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06/03/2005 |
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any oversight of important public projects? Open a history book. You don't sound like an inquiring journalist. You sound like Mussolini. And for someone who calls himself a journalist that's in-excusable.
Look - before you talk about morals you have to talk about common sense. The story of the California stem cell institute is shaping up as the biggest scandal in the history of this state. And people in our profession are largely asleep at the wheel.
Prop 71 was sold by pushing all the right emotional buttons. It is still being sold that way - and the most of the press has taken the bait along with everyone else.
Once again - people who have worked closely on the intiative are plainly admitting it was oversold. I've spoken with some of them.
This is not an institute that is merely turning it's back on lawmakers - it has hired a $10,000 a month PR flack to fight the legislature. Any journalist with any kind of gut would have to admit that something stinks here. Bad.
Here's one who does:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/05/15/EDG5TCOLKN1.DTL
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WAY too much.. i didn't say "don't have any oversight of public projects"..i said "don't give the CALIFORNIA legislature control over THIS ONE"...
being as san diego, where i work, was the runner-up for the headquarters of this thing, i've probebly spent as much time, if not more, looking into it than you have..and i'm virtually certain i've been working in this business longer than you have..
something may ver well stink here.. but unlike you, i'm going to watch, wait, and research.. and we'll SEE what, if anything, stinks..and also unlike you, i'm approaching the story with no particular biases one way or the other..and i don't plan to jump to any conclusions without hard and fast evidence that such a conclusion needs to be reached..for the sake of your readers/listeners/viewers, you might consider doing the same thing..it's called journalism 1A..
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