[12333] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
C&S&NYT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Bauer)
Mon May 16 08:56:03 1994
Date: Mon, 16 May 94 07:15:21 EDT
From: bauer@tig.com (Mike Bauer)
To: czar@cyberspace.org
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, czar@cyberspace.org, willis@cs.tamu.edu,
czar@cyberspace.org
In-Reply-To: Chetly A. Zarko's message of Sun, 15 May 94 01:35 EDT <m0q2YrD-0001a9C@grex.cyberspace.org>
>No, I don't think I missed the points. I don't see how the
>question of whether Lewis is anywhere on the is relevant. Does
>he have to be on the net to report about the net? Do I have
>to be on White House staff to report about WH staff activities?
>Or do I have to be in Iraq to report or editorialize about the
>war? Or actually in the crowd where the President gives
>a particular speech? To suggest he has to be a regular
>net user to report on it is take a very elitist approach to
>net access and discourse.
>
Sure, and anyone with an MBA can run any kind of business. After all it's
just Net Present Value calculations anyway. And any good journalist
worth their salt can just sit in their office, watch CNN, and write a
great story on the Bonsnian conflict. :)
