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ABC's 'Sic' Choice Suggests Belief in Afterlife an Error
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 01/01/2007 5:01:31 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

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To: Coleus; governsleastgovernsbest
Mark Finkelstein is a Knight?

He's probably in the Knights of Pythias.

Knights of Columbus? 8<)
121 posted on 01/01/2007 11:32:30 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Centurion2000

That's exactly right. ABC apparently thought the religiously-based idea of expecting to see his friend ago was so odd that they wanted people to understand that it wasn't a transcription error.


122 posted on 01/01/2007 11:32:42 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

My interpretation as well, despite the meally-mouthed cover-the-media's-tailpipe excuses.


123 posted on 01/01/2007 11:34:55 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Sorry, while I certainly don't in any way question the blatant and sneering atheism of ABC, this would not have been my take on this one. It's a head-scratcher to me as to why the "sic" was used at all, since my first inference when seeing it is always a spelling error, that doesn't exist in this passage. Or perhaps there WAS a spelling error that they already corrected?

Again, every element of the MSM is repugnant to the core; I think the MSM are the greatest practical threat we face. I just don't see this one.

MM


124 posted on 01/01/2007 11:54:34 AM PST by MississippiMan (Behold now behemoth...he moves his tail like a cedar. Job 40:17)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
The quote was . . . in quotes, so there was no further need to indicate that it was a verbatim!!

That's not always true. I saw Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal's so-called quotes once, and it was obvious that someone had cleaned up his English grammar within the quotes. It was so glaring as to be ridiculous. There should be a word that shows that quotes have been tampered with.

125 posted on 01/01/2007 12:06:47 PM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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To: em2vn; governsleastgovernsbest
It seems that you are taking extreme liberty with what you assume the transcriber meant. Argh, if that helps move things along.

I see what you mean:

Can you provide a clear-cut example of 'sic' ever having been used in that way?

Virtually every use of "sic" is used to show that the text or transcription, regardless of what the transcriber or transmitter thinks of it, is being portrayed as found. That some people, such as Michael Fumento, use it in a humorous fashion to draw attention to the extreme levels of illiteracy and illogic of those who write to flame him, is secondary; even he would not be using it unless he wanted to indicate that what he was transmitting was what the person actually said or wrote and was not due to his carelessness in transcribing or to his bias in reporting (Gulf War sickness and vaccine cranks seem to be the worst in illiteracy, illogic, and ill will). For example:
Subject: Misinformed


Tell it to my now 6 year old who was developmentally completely normal until 2 weeks after his vaccines in 2000. The DPT he was given had methyl [sic] mercury. as [sic] did the other 5 shots given to him the same day. The tragedy is the vaccne [sic] schedule being pushed on children too early when they are not developed enough. you [sic] really misjudge parents. we [sic] simply want the truth, and neither extreme in the vaccine conflict is right.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

Amy

Dear Amy,

If you simply want truth, why do you tell people that your child received vaccines containing methyl mercury when it has never been an ingredient in any vaccine?

You should be ashamed of yourself.

Sincerely,
Michael Fumento

126 posted on 01/01/2007 12:20:42 PM PST by aruanan
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To: Coleus
Good catch and stuff.
127 posted on 01/01/2007 12:37:39 PM PST by unspun (What do you think? Please think, before you answer.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Maybe the (sic) was because the person didn't put a comma after "family," thus: "... your family, and I'll ..."


128 posted on 01/01/2007 2:04:30 PM PST by Tax-chick ("Everything is either willed or permitted by God, and nothing can hurt me." Bl. Charles de Foucauld)
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To: RightWhale

That's exactly what I was meaning, in that I just always thought that's what it meant. I did not bother to look up the definition, and never realized it actually imparts that there is a perceived error in the text. Our editorial section(s) of the local fishwrap use (sic) all the time.


129 posted on 01/01/2007 2:21:38 PM PST by Ro_Thunder ("Other than ending SLAVERY, FASCISM, NAZISM and COMMUNISM, war has never solved anything")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest; WKB

Nice one!

ABC News is *sic*.

Thank you for the post and ping.


130 posted on 01/01/2007 10:07:37 PM PST by dixiechick2000 (There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators. ~~ Will Rogers)
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