[10362] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Newsweek,Wall Street Journal Etc. Where are you ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Elmer-DeWitt)
Sat Feb 19 13:13:46 1994
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 13:18:00 -0500
To: cook@path.net (Gordon Cook)
From: ped@panix.com (Philip Elmer-DeWitt)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
>high and mighty and resource rich *TIME* magazine
Do I come across as high and mighty? Sure don't mean to.
>I have spent significant time over the last six weeks to try to
>point you in the right direction.
You now have my permission to stop doing me any favors.
> all you do is complain that no one has dumped a smoking gun into your lap.
No, my complaint is that all I hear from you is smoke.
>Can't Time get beyond rewrites of administration press releases
Perhaps you are confusing TIME with the Wall Street Journal?
>Is that all the journalists of Time can do? Wait to be handed a story
>on a silver platter, seasoned with absolute proof of scandalous wrong
>doing?
Seems to me, you have taken up considerable bandwidth here making
allegations you couldn't prove. Now you complain that the rest of the press
isn't doing your homework for you.
>Too busy hyping to dig??!
Talk is cheap. Digging is expensive. And we all hype the stuff we love. Ask
Dave Hughes.
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