slow-dog.entry25.01.2002: "more alternet crap--poor sources"

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From now on, the main body of all unimportant rants will be placed in extended entries only, so that they don't spoil the sleek lines of slow-dog.com.

Alternet is my favorite whipping boy. Today I read an article about filmmaker Stephanie Black and her latest film, Life and Debt. Here's the paragraph:

"I did a Nexis search," said Black, "for 10 years worth of articles on the IMF and World Bank in the major American papers -- the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times -- and at the end of my search I had seven articles from over 10 years. My file was this thin," she said, holding up two fluttering fingers with a centimeter of space between them. "I wondered, how can this be?"

The answer is, you can't do research. Considering that I could find 94 articles in the Times alone since 1996, I thought this was a little odd. Does it matter at all? No, not really.

11:59 AM PST