I agree, Betty. Reliable tech news is limited. The W Post and NY Times have some good tech writers, but that is about as far as I go for general US news media. Even NPR does not have a good tech reporter (except for Science Friday, but that is mostly science, not tech news). Most general print and broadcast reporters don't know enough to report tech news reliably. I have also cultivated some reliable online sources, such as Ars Technica, Slashdot and a few others.
Thank you, Mark Snyder -----Original Message----- This is a choice: entertainment vs. news. Could choose both, but most don't. As long as news is offered as "entertainment" and fact-based real news is considered "boring" at best and insulting--politically incorrect--at worst, instead of as mostly objective reporting, we're stuck with infotainment. Those of us who want news have to go outside the US or to more obscure reliable sources to find out what's happening here--with straight news and tech news. Just as commercial products have "truth in advertising" requirements, "news" venues that aren't news need disclaimers, including clueless ignoramuses who know nothing about tech but write about it anyway. Then clueless readers get scared about things they don't understand either. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
