On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:50:24 -0400 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
writes:
>
> On Jun 9, 2007, at 9:32 PM, Auguste Blanqui wrote:
>
> > The Cockburn research effort, judging from his front-page piece on
> > Counterpunch today, seems to come from 30 minutes of Google or
> > something.
>
> Actually, from long acquaintance with AC's research habits, it's
> somewhere between highly likely and certain that someone else did
> most of the Googling. I'd always thought there was something a
> little
> scandalous about having other people do all your research for you -
>
> be they interns, friends, or correspondents (who were often quoted
> verbatim without their permission). But now it's clear that it leads
>
> to intellectual atrophy.
Aren't those research habits fairly typical of bigfoot journalists?
Jim F.
>
> Doug
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