[974] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Accuracy in Reporting -- A Solution!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lloyd W. Taylor)
Fri Jul 12 23:32:18 1991
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 91 23:31:11 -0400
From: lloyd@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Lloyd W. Taylor)
To: com-priv@psi.com
Cc: lloyd@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu
Ummm, not to be too radical or anything, but there is a simple way for
an Internet Citizen to guarantee accurate reporting:
Write the article yourself.
Most of the Trade Press magazines and newspapers are *hungry* for
technical people, who can write well, to do so. And the pay can be quite
good.
This won't address the problem of (putting it gently) hyperbole in the
mainstream press, at least not right away. It will help those who read
the trade journals to get a better view of what goes on in the
Internet, in a way that is most likely to put it in the best light.
(As an aside, I did a talk entitled "Introduction to LAN/WAN
Integration" at the most recent International Communications Association
conference. In a room filled with 125 telecomm and networking
professionals from the Fortune 500, *only* *two* *people* had even
*heard* of the Internet. Those are the folks who have the big bucks to
spend on private networking, and who get their education from the Trade
Press. Anybody interested in educating them, while making several
hundred dollars per article doing so????)
-- Lloyd Taylor
Telecomm/Networking Manager
The Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory
