[12260] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: C&S&NYT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Will Kreth)
Wed May 11 21:02:28 1994
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 15:35:11 GMT
To: bauer@tig.com (Mike Bauer), com-priv@psi.com
From: Will Kreth <will@wired.com>
At 8:45 AM 5/11/94 -0400, Mike Bauer wrote:
>Peter Lewis has two big articles on them and the general state of
>controversy on USENET in the NYT today. It's typical Peter. He seems
>to side once again, however subtly, with what seems to be "normal
>business people taking rightful advantage of a 'geek' medium." Title
>of the article is "Sneering at a virtual lynch mob." Quotes include
>one discussing how Mr. Canter admires the person who built robotic
>pager to page them 40 times a night: '"I must admit, I admire his
>tenacity," said Mr. Canter, who is tenacious himself.' He even goes
>on to sweep their suspension from the Florida bar under the rugh. by
>saying that was simply "not their first experience with public scorn."
>
>I'm beginning to wonder who's going to start causing more damage, C&S
>or the NYT....
My feelings exactly. And my gut also tells me that some of the NYT's other
fine technology writers would not have written quite as slanted an analysis
of the C&S affair and its repercussions. In a nutshell, Peter Lewis "just
doesn't
get it."
This is the commons of which he writes. I challenge Mr. Lewis to defend his
opinions in this or any other popular Net forum, or be dismissed as yet another
axe grinder or the mainstream print media on a pedestal.
_wk-
