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This just might be the most absurd sentence ever written in the English language. Can someone change or remove it because I'm too stoned and drunk to do so? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.146.134.204 (talk) 08:56, 13 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Someone needs to explain properly why they devoted a relatively large section of the Krulwich article to a very minor incident occurring quite recently in his long and prolific career in broadcast journalism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.87.113.203 (talk) 02:57, 31 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah especially given the fact that the reason he was “angry” in tone was because of Yang’s refusal to acknowledge that in retrospect it seems quite unlikely that the “Yellow Rain” was actually a chemical weapon, and that that question was really important given the geopolitical ramifications of the claim that chemical weapons were being used in armed conflict. This doesn’t justify “anger” at—-questions of chemical weaponry aside——a representative for a group of people who are without-question victims of a horrible genocide and crime against humanity, but I personally felt like the episode did a good job making sure that was understood and discussed thoroughly.
I don’t write this to relitigate the issue, I only put it there to make clear there is a valid counterpoint to this supposed “controversy” and I don’t know that anyone other than Dr Yeng himself felt Krulwich really did anything wrong. I think Krulwich apologized out an abundance of caution, given everything Yeng has been through, but the way the section is written doesn’t convey that at all. The fact is that Yeng made and is still making claims that one of the world’s two superpowers had begun deploying novel chemical weaponry, when all evidence now suggests it actually hadn’t, and that had serious real world consequences on the direction of weapons proliferation during the Cold War. That is all Krulwich said in the episode. 76.174.113.253 (talk) 10:13, 2 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
This is not a controversy. This is a human being with a long history of professionalism who had one bad day and apologized for being rude.
Robert Krulwich has a bright personality that can shine through even the most monotonous of wire copy, uncommon in professional journalism.
This unique quality is double-edged, so this incident should not necessarily be erased from his page but instead could be incorporated into a "Professional Style" section. Dabneylomell (talk) 14:45, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
