Kesher Talk

Was I scooped? I made my first foray over to Meryl Yourish's page in a while; she seems to have left some choice words for me! Admittedly, I don't get around to all the blogs as often as I should - I'm a busy guy.

But I was not trying to "scoop" any bloggers on the ICT study of Israeli-Palestinian casualties. I'm sure I originally learned about it from someone's blog. But aside from an article in WorldNetDaily when the study was released, and one in CNSNews.com today, I'd seen no media coverage.

Mind you, Meryl found out about it in the Village Voice... so perhaps there was coverage I missed.

Howver, I have a slightly higher responsibility than the average blogger. In the work I do for STATS, if I'm wrong that means that STATS is wrong. The stuff I do for Kesher Talk is just me and my co-editors taking the blame. I had to take the time to pore over and analyze the study, which is why it took me so long to write about it.

Such is the life of an analyst.

As for the Thing being Jewish... I realize now that I was not the first to break the story in the blogosphere. So what?

And for anyone still listening, my last name (soon to be shared with my fiancee) is Fienberg, not Feinberg. Immigrants who did not speak English (or write that well, I presume) met incompetent American immigration officials, leading to the strange spelling.

Learn it, live it, know it.

posted by Howard @ 7/30/2002 04:21:58 PM