In the 19th century, photography inaugurated or at least vastly augmented armchair travel, making it infinitely broader, cheaper, more varied and more credible than prints and drawings had.
In an editors' note the next day, The Times said that there was no credible evidence to support the rumor and regretted having printed the rumor.
Mainstream newspapers are mostly credible in what they print but can lean one way or another.
If I couldn't, a lot of what was printed depended on where the story originated -- was the source credible?
Building critical mass as technology uncertainties are reduced: From the experience of the Holst Centre, where strategic partners still join the center as the promise of printing becomes more credible.
And if they can't claim credible tech credentials, print people say they are in the content business, a supplier to the great new digital distributors.
Readers then be asked to vote for "the least credible history book in print".
Last month the History News Network voted David Barton's book "The Jefferson Lies" the "least credible history book in print".
Updated, 4 18 p.m. | The historian Howard Zinn won a dubious prize of sorts last year when his best-selling "People's History of the United States" came in second in an informal online poll to determine the "least credible history book in print".
