At 7:22 PM 01/03/95, Raph Levien wrote:

His piece that ran Saturday was badly mangled by the editorial process, especially since it ran on page one. Those articles get to be mangled by a whole new set of people who otherwise wouldn't get to touch it. I think Lewis has basically good intentions, and does do his homework before writing a story.

Yeah, I encourage everyone to actually _finish_ reading that article before putting Lewis on your permanent hate list. I almost put it down in disgust, from the stuff on page 1, but if you turn to where the article is continued, it becomes quite a bit more balanced and less fear-mongering. In a rather disjointed sort of way, that makes it easy to beleive the article was mangled somewhat in editing. Perhaps they rearanged it to put the "sensational" fear-mongering stuff first. Which is unfortunate, and perhaps intentional, because most people probably won't make it to the end of the article, and if they do, will have been pre-biased by the initial paragraphs, especially if this is the first they've heard of the subject. But I don't have too much trouble believing that all blame belongs on the editors, and not Lewis. :)