by that I understand you are saying: Write any old tosh you like - and drop the dead donkey - because at the end of the day - truth or lies - its all about selling news?. (innit?)

The point I was trying to make was this overoften..how much credence/credibility can we place in a news item like that - who can verify it?

is it 20% True,or maybe a half truth or an urban myth or simply just a bunch of bored overpaid journalists having a pisstake?

*just lately I've just stopped and thought about what I am reading in the print and web media - I agree with him:

"Sir Tim Berners-Lee said he was increasingly worried at how his creation was being used to spread lies, hoaxes and urban myths."*

just write me off as an [old fogey cum old fart]

rem.