[979] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Thank you for your comments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stan Barber)
Sat Jul 13 22:44:32 1991
From: sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber)
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1991 21:43:49 CDT
In-Reply-To: edtjda@magic322.chron.com (Joe Abernathy)
To: edtjda@magic322.chron.com (Joe Abernathy), com-priv@psi.com
Cc: nren-discuss@uu.psi.com
On Jul 13, 9:05pm, Joe Abernathy wrote:
} Subject: Thank you for your comments
} There are a lot of ways of getting at the truth, and a lot of
} ways of presenting the truth. Many of you have criticized me because I use
} compelling adjectives and focus on the issues from a man-on-the-street
} perspective -- the very thing you would normally demand from the opposition
} press. But I don't think I'm a better journalist than somebody like Markoff
} -- far from it. He just hasn't shown a great deal of interest in covering
} the Internet from a public affairs perspective.
}-- End of excerpt from Joe Abernathy
I don't like sensationalism in any form. Your style seems to require the use
of colorful and emotionally charged phrases. Such a style only adds opinion
to facts (which in my opinion only makes them harder to understand). Perhaps
that is not very journalistic. Certainly many forms of "mainstream" media
choose to accent things with such verbage. As I have written earlier, such
things sell newspapers. I remain convinced that you (and the Chronicle) are
much more interested in selling newspapers than getting your facts straight.
I am curious what you mean when you say the "opposition press" and "public
affairs perspective"? Would you expand on these phrases?
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Barber Opinions expressed are only mine. Baylor College of Medicine
