Browsers

[David Hardy]

I remember the Henning story being broadcast, extremely amusing.

On a somewhat related note, there have been persistent rumors, along the
lines of urban legends, that there is either a secret U.S. military base in
the Blue Hills or it is an underground UFO base.

And if one is hiking around in them hills down there in the tropics, watch
where you put yer hands and feet;  there are timber rattlers.

Full disclosure:  I use Chrome and Firefox here in northern Vermont.



On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at gapps.blu.org> wrote:

> On 08/03/2011 03:54 PM, Ryan Lee Stanyan wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> May 18th or 19th 1980 Boston Channel 7's John Henning reported that the
> Great Blue Hill in Canton, Ma was erupting. This was a story that his
> news producer inserted. The producer got fired, I don't recall if
> Henning was fired or not, but he subsequently left and became the
> statehouse reporter at channel 4.
>
>
>
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