[993] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Privitization is the issue today
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy Smith)
Mon Jul 15 13:56:59 1991
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 91 14:11:22 EDT
From: Roy Smith <roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu>
To: edtjda@magic322.chron.com, stev@ftp.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, nren-discuss@psi.com
Stev Knowles writes:
> alot of people are still offended by the story. maybe this tends
> to point out the fact that you are not the correct person to be
> writing these articles.
I keep managing to get myself into the position of appearing to defend
Joe Abernathy, which is not really my intent, but I just couldn't let this
one go. Do you really mean to say the choice of who should write a story
should be based on who will offend the least people? Lots of good journalism
offends lots of people, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be written. It's
hard to imagine how an investigative reporter could do his or her job well
without offending somebody, sometime (if not many people, often). If you
don't like reading articles that offend people, stick to the trade rags.
