On 10 Jun 2011, at 12:22, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Italo Vignoli wrote: >> http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2077963/libreoffice-ready-commercial-distribution-months-document-foundation >> http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2077979/document-foundation-promises-enterprise-ready-libreoffice-august > > It's great to see that the LibreOffice download size will be 30 > MBytes... if only that was true! It must be an invariant that, however > accurate the information provided to them, journalists always manage to > get something wrong.
It's not just journalists. All human communications have that effect, hence the game "Chinese Whispers"[1]. That's why when I give a conference keynote I try to also publish my thoughts before or at the same time, so there can be no doubt what I think. It's also why reports of what others said or think should be treated as suspect (a concept described in English as "Hearsay"[2]) until there's a supporting source provided. The lesson I have learned is that I should treat each error in an article where I am the source as my own failure to present the information in a way that was effective for the journalist. On the other hand, as a journalist I always appreciate rapid, polite, factual and constructive corrections to my articles and apply them as soon as I can. S. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearsay -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
