That is as debatable as whether the earth is flat.

ECONOMIST: Letters | The

Dr. DAVID BLACK (Marine Biologist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography): About 50 percent of the earth's surface is made up of these big, flat plains of mud we know so little about.

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His rather presciently subtitled 2008 book Flat Earth News: An Award-Winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media is an excellent, compelling read.

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