On Sep 15, 2010, at 6:16 AM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote:
> An interesting unintended consequence of the original media storm is
> that no one in the media enjoys being played; it seems that now most of
> the original players are lining up to ask hard questions. It may be too
> little and too late, frankly. I suppose it's better than nothing but it
> sure is a great lesson in popular media journalism failures.
On the contrary, because life is not a series of disconnected events, this is a
great success for the safety of civilians, and for media coverage, going
forward:
- people who care about the lives of others, and who worry about
technologies based in "trust" now are more aware of one another than ever before
- the business of taking well-intentioned but defective things apart is
out of the shadows and in a very favorable spotlight
- The media have a whole new dimension of drama to add to their
coverage of high tech wonders: "... but does it really work?"
Journalism is self-correcting, as you note... provided a feedback channel
exists and can be maintained long enough for the corrections to hold... as
happened here.
- jim
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