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Len Fehskens <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 12 Feb 1999 10:21:26 -0500
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John Deacon writes:

>It is funny, though, that in other areas of the press, when you know
>a subject well, you realise quite often how much is shallow nonsense.

Particularly if you've ever been interviewed.

>Whenever I read anything about Spanish tourism in the area where I live
>it is usually wrong ...  from the price of a hire car to that of a bottle
>of wine.  This is so commonplace to the point that one realises the UK
>press have something against Spanish tourism or rather it's customers (I'm
>not in that sort of place, by the way, and that's quite another subject).

I am reminded of the dictum that more or less goes "Never attribute to
malice what is likely simple incompetence".

len.

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