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I mean, in today's world (with the ready availability of sources) it's just not good enough to say "a report commissioned by a government agency says...". At least give the title, or the author and date, of the report, and the name of the agency.

Talk of differing expectations. Yes, I'd wish every newspaper would do that, especially on the web, but I long ago gave up expecting scientific literature standards from even top-quality general media - or to expect the majority of readers wanting that. (For the majority their papers are still "newspapers of record".)

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Tue Mar 14th, 2006 at 06:29:30 AM EST
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A funny thing is that several British newspapers boast a "newspaper of the year" title on their front page, except that they don't tell you which year. For The Independent it was apparently 2004, I don't know about The Times.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Mar 14th, 2006 at 06:31:34 AM EST
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Times? 1804.
by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Tue Mar 14th, 2006 at 07:46:50 AM EST
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And they don't mention that it was the only newspaper of the year.
by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Tue Mar 14th, 2006 at 08:42:44 AM EST
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