Browsers

[Jerry Feldman]

I actually saw the newscast :-). Didn't know the Internet reached all
the way up in Northern Vermont.

On 08/03/2011 04:08 PM, David Hardy wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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.
> 
> 
> 
>     --
>     Jerry Feldman <gaf at gapps.blu.org <mailto:gaf at gapps.blu.org>>
>     Boston Linux and Unix
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at gapps.blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
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