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" <mad...@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 <sco...@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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