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2024-09-26
This blog is a species of journalism, and while it's more of an opinion blog than a place to find new facts, I acknowledge the journalistic obligation of accuracy. So when someone questions the accuracy of something I write, it naturally concerns me, and on occasion I will add corrections to my blogs as necessary. Something like that happened with last week's blog, and the details are involved and interesting enough to devote today's blog to the issue.
I write this blog in about an hour or two every Sunday morning. It is devoted to commenting on other engineering-ethics-related news articles because, among other things, contacting live sources at 5 AM Sunday morning is not likely to produce positive results. So I depend only on material that I can get from the Internet, books, magazines, and other sources that are indifferent to the time at which they are consulted.
Last week's blog was based on an item carried by the print version of the professional-organization magazine IEEE Spectrum, which still pays real reporters to talk or otherwise communicate with live people. One of those live persons was the former Virginia House of Delegates candidate Susanna Gibson, who spoke with Spectrum reporter Eliza Strickland.