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Posted by J. Clarke on December 15, 2005, 12:57 pm
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felmon john davis wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:26:02 -0500, J. Clarke wrote:
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>>>> 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.
This would have been the early '80s and most online archives only go back to
the mid '90s. Only way to find it would be to go down to the library and
read through years of Courant on microfilm.
Nothing weird about it not being online. Most human knowledge is not
online--the Internet is a far more limited research tool than is generally
recognized.
> Felmon
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