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Posted by felmon john davis on December 15, 2005, 11:45 am
Please log in for more thread options On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:26:02 -0500, J. Clarke wrote:
>>> Now why would a respectable newspaper falsify such a story?
>>
>> Who said they falsified it? The reporter may just have written what he
>> /believed/ to be true, the editor just didn't verify any sources and
>> /believed/ the reporter... and so it got printed "in good faith" :)
>
> And of course they faked the picture of Brezhnev and the kid holding up the
> letter.
>
>> Seriously, a minor news item appearing in a newspaper doesn't mean much. A
>> major headline of a major newspaper is likely to be publicly challenged if
>> it's wrong (and even then only "likely"), but not such a minor item in a
>> minor paper.
>
> It may not mean _much_ but it means a lot more than the unsupported opinion
> of somebody posting on USENET.
it sure is a great story. I did a search on <http://www.snopes.com> which
deals with urban legends and came up with nothing. I've been googling and
also nothing. the Hartford Courant's site is a bit slow and they may not
have their archives online. tried two variant spellings of
Brezhnev/Breshnev's name, no go.
weird. might not be on line.
Felmon
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