[10386] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Journalism and the Net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Cook)
Sun Feb 20 21:13:34 1994
From: cook@path.net (Gordon Cook)
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 1994 18:12:22 PST
To: com-priv@psi.com
Glenn Tenny gets the prize for the most disingenuous comment of the month when
he said:
The following are some excerpts from postings ***(I don't
recall from whom or when)*** that I'd like to comment on:
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Since they were all said by me within the last 24 hours Glenn obviously has a
very short memory.
Glenn, if you don't like what I am saying come right out and say it and rely
less on innuedo than you do here. It would waste less bandwidth.
And although I never went to journalism school Glenn I learned the
difference between a **primary source** and a secondary source over 20 years
ago when I completed my history doctorate. And I'll flat tell you I eiher had
at least **two** primary sources for every assertion I made or if I started
out with a secondary source, I dug until I got confirmation from at least one
primary source - with BARRnet I had strongly conflicting data and was unable
to find a tie breaker. (I also indicated as much.) If I didn't I'd have had
to be an awfully lucky guesser.
And gee....ya know what I didn't have? Yeah.... sources willing to go on
record. Why? Because they either work for the companies involved or have
seen the documents involved. And not surprisingly they don't want to get
fired.
If my comments upset you Glenn, delete them. When you close with such cute
and disingenuous remarks as
"so much of the non-mainstream press is viewed as gossip or
vindictive (speaking in the general case, and not to anything or
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
anyone here -- seriously!) -- like the tabloids in the supermarket
^^^^^^^^^^^
lines."
You may cause some to wonder what **your own agenda** is. I made very clear
when you decided to bash me last weekend what *MY* agenda is. If you forgot
why don't you take a look in the archives?
At least the net has more information than it otherwise would as a result of
my diggings. Sorry that appears to give you a problem
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And to Dick St Peters..... when closed door deal doesn't involve a timely release of the public parts of the prop., I think it is time that someone asked questions.
