Don Parris wrote:
Fox News finally aired some of the e-mail rebuttals to James
Prendergast's article "Massachusetts Should Shut Down OpenDocument:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,172063,00.html
I didn't recognize the names, and my own e-mail didn't make the cut,
but I did keep in touch with Fox News until they published this. My
own e-mail did get published on LXer last week, in response to
Adelstein's article about Prendergast's affiliation with ATL. I guess
it all came out in the wash, so to speak. Anyway, I thought the
e-mails published on Fox News were pretty representative of my own
points.
What I love is the editor's notes at the end:
"The column _"Massachusetts Should Close Down OpenDocument"_
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170724,00.html> that appeared on
FOXnews.com Sept. 28 identified author James Prendergast as executive
director of Americans for Technology Leadership, but failed to disclose
that Microsoft is a founding member of that organization.
"ATL is a coalition of technology companies, professionals and
organizations that advocates for limited government regulation of
technology and for competitive market solutions to technology policy. In
addition to Microsoft, ATL's founding members include Staples, Inc.,
CompUSA, Citizens Against Government Waste, CompTIA, Small Business
Survival Committee, Clarity Consulting, Cityscape Filmworks, Association
for Competitive Technology and 60Plus Association.
"Mr. Prendergast's affiliation with Microsoft should have been stated
clearly in the article."
On the other hand, we should have expected him to have an agenda the
moment his column appeared. After all, it *is* Fox News....
--
Steven Shelton
Twilight Media & Design
www.TwilightMD.com
www.GLOAMING.us
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