At 08:33 AM 3/22/00 EST, you wrote:

The problem is that very few in the popular press care anything about
accuracy.  Best most of us do is to not sound foolish.  If asked, I could
have provided the ENN graphics department with any number of pictures of
honey bees - but the graphics person never asked.

Same about the poll that asks a question that has nothing to do with our
plans - we're not moving honey bees or any other bees from the U.S. to
other countries around the world.

But all of this gets worse.  Over the past year, I have found myself quoted
numerous times by reporters who have never talked to me.

I get e-mails and calls that say "We've written an article about your work,
can you provide pictures to illustrate it"  but   THEY DIDN'T EVEN TALK TO
ME or anyone on my team.

It's a shame when the tabloids get the story more or less correct, and the
main line business and news magazines get it all wrong - or appatently
don't care.

Ask if you can review the story for accuracy before it goes to press, and
about 95% of them say they have a policy that prohibits anyone seeing the
article!

But a fact checker may call - and all they want to know is how to spell
your name, not if the facts of the story are correct.

So, keep an open mind.  Hope they at least get the general idea - that
unfortunately seems to be the best that we can do.


>   If increasing support for bees and beekeepers, honey bee research and
>other programs is important, then beekeepers need to respond when somebody
>publishes inaccurate, incomplete or highly conjectural information as fact
>about honey bees.

>I wrote an email to the Environmental News Network pointing out the
>bumblebee graphic with the Jerry Bromenshenk article. Here was the photo
>editor's response:
>   Hello: I am the photo editor at ENN.com and I received your e-mail today
>
>about the animal sentinel graphic.  Thank you for bringing this inaccuracy
>
>to my attention.  I talked to the graphic designer who made the piece.
>
>There was some difficulty in locating a quality honey bee photo and given
>
>the deadline situation, this was the best that could be done.
Jerry J. Bromenshenk
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