Browsers

Ryan Lee Stanyan ryan.stanyan at gmail.com
Wed Aug 3 15:54:10 EDT 2011



On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 15:39 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
> "Jon \"maddog\" Hall" <maddog at li.org> writes:
> >
> > On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 14:42 -0400, Brian St. Pierre wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Bill Sconce <sconce at in-spec-inc.com> wrote:
> > > >    1.
> > > >    http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,236944/printable.html
> > > >
> > > >    If you use Internet Explorer, your IQ might be below average--at
> > > >    least, according to one study.
> > > 
> > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14389430
> > > 
> > > Draw your own conclusions about IE users -- that "study" was a hoax...
> > 
> > Interesting to see the number of "legitimate" news organizations that
> > just swallowed the hoax and reported on it without checking into it at
> > all.
> > 
> > Makes you wonder about the authenticity of other "news items" reported
> > by them.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> It's called "churnalism"--cf.:
> 
>     http://www.onthemedia.org/2011/mar/04/churning-out-pr/transcript/
> 
>     http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2011/03/churnalismcom-reveals-press-release-copy-in-news-stories068.html
> 
>     http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/04/21/135568766/everything-you-know-about-this-band-is-wrong
> 
> (that last one is particularly interesting: it's an NPR journalist saying,
>  more or less, `it's the PR people's fault--their press releases lie to us!').
> 
> The news-media still generally report that `Linux still has yet to get
> to even 1% market share', too--I want to know where they keep getting
> *that* figure.
> 

I think it's called "news entertainment" nowadays.  Just make a huge
headline libeling someone and then post the retraction weeks later
buried somewhere in the back.



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