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Re: Ignorant mass-media strikes again
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Wed Dec 9 19:39:26 1998
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 19:07:43 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <8290gh2bun.fsf@chimp.juniper.net>; from Tony Li <tli@juniper.net> on Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 02:24:00PM -0800
On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 02:24:00PM -0800, Tony Li wrote:
> avg@alink.net (Vadim Antonov) writes:
> > Am i paranoid, or is mass-media hell-bent on propaganda of antisocial
> > behavior in the Internet?
> >
> > Or are they just really clueless?
>
> They found out a long time ago that controversy and sensationalism sells
> papers. This predates the Internet or its founders.
Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by
stupidity. -- Lazarus Long, among others.
They're just _really_ clueless. They don't understand "the _right_
answer"... if the answer works, they'll promote it.
Kind of like the UDP meltdowns when I-phones first hit.
Cheers,
-- jra
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