caused quite a to do here.

hadn't checked there yet today... that's sickening for waay too many reasons, and that's coming from me.

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"porn IS a priority for you sir." -me0w

It is not often that I feel it wiser to keep my mouth shut on a subject, than to rant freely here, or on slashdot, or wherever.

This is one of those times, for if I start, I may not be able to stop.

Suffice it to say, that I am surprised and dismayed to find that the media are, in fact, worse than I thought. Until now, I hadn't considered that possible.


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This is not a psychotic episode. It is a cleansing moment of clarity.

Disclaimer:  I work in the media, albeit not the newspaper media.

Taking a stick to every person in the media here is not the most intelligent thing to do.

If they wanted better coverage, they needed to make clear the magnitude of what they were doing.  If you want coverage, you have to know who to get a hold of and be able to get across that what your doing is important.

What Penny Arcade did was magnificent, but if they only let ONE newspaper know they were doing it, then THEY fucked up.

Local media guys are NOT clued into technology and they generally write for people with a sixth grade reading level.  

If you want them to have a clue you HAVE to educate them.

This has to be the most fucked up media opinion that I have seen in YEARS.  It reeks of ignorance, talk radio, and break-room bullshitting.  Clearly you have never worked in, or even investigated how stories get promoted or printed.

You seem to think that the Catholic school's efforts should go unnoticed.  That's not true

I would strongly suggest that you get a clue.  Should the newspaper have done a better job?  Damn straight.  Should Penny Arcade done a better job making the reporter understand better?  You bet.

It's up to everyone involved to make sure that good events like this are covered as much as possible.  Just because one newspaper doesn't have the best practice, doesn't mean everyone is a hack.

Gedvondur
"If you do not sin, then you too may some day float like a big pink Goodyear blimp of The Lord." -theboz

the press.

I mean, every news story I've ever been involved in was completely mangled by the press, so why should I think that they miraculously get everything else right?

I mean, if they can't get this story straight, why should I believe them when they say the FBI is targeting almanac users?

BTW - glad it wasn't you. Not that I mind trolling, but it was such a lame troll. I would have, you know, expected better.


"Forget it. Our military power is culturally based. They cannot rival us without becoming us." - Ralph Peters.

Yes, the vast majority of journalists, especially the more successful ones, are utter scum.  Hypocritical, lying assholes, concerned only with where the next line of coke is coming from.  Cynical little fucks who dash off their articles in the five minutes they have spare between sucking their corporate masters' cocks, scoring charlie from their dealer, and getting tanked down soem trendy bar with their fellow hacks, with whom they swap stories about the poor sods they fucked over today.  Laziness, cynicism, incompetence and simple malice all combine to mean they write they whatever ill informed shit comes to their boozed up heads, all details changed to fit the prejudices of their readership, the demands of their editor and the complete lack of investigation they bothered to perform.  Fortunately a word was created to describe this type of people, that word is "Cunt".

No surprises here. This is a Seattle rag we're talking about.

It doesn't get any better than that.

I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do.
The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. --W.S. Burroughs

The Pill ;-)