At 1:40 PM -0700 5/23/00, Phil Agre wrote: >Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 13:40:32 -0700 >Reply-To: Phil Agre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sender: State and Local Freedom of Information Issues ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: Phil Agre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Gore quote >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Matt Gaylor forwarded to me Vint Cerf's contribution (with indented quotations >from multiple previous messages) to an elaborate discussion on your mailing >list of the Wired News articles that discussed Al Gore's comments on the >Internet. In the course of that discussion, apparently my name was mentioned. >Without trying to enter into all of the details of the debate, I want to >make clear that, contrary to what may have been a hurried characterization >of my article, I did not say that Wired News had made up any quotations. >So far as I am aware, the quotations in both of the Wired News articles got >Gore's words right. Nor is the issue really one of quotation out of context, >if by "context" we mean the words that Gore uttered immediately before and >after the sentence about the Internet. (It is important to get that whole >sentence, though, so that it's understood that he's talking about actions he >took in the context of his service in Congress, and that he's not claiming, >like a Tennessee version of Elena Ceaucescu, to have done the technical work.) >I did feel that those articles paraphrased Gore's comments in tendentious >ways, that they made several unfair and misleading arguments, and that their >overall effect was to grossly distort both the clear meaning of what Gore said >and the reality to which Gore referred. In particular, if we have to choose >whether it was Gore or Wired News who engaged in "exaggeration", I think >that Wired News would clearly be the winner. (Those wanting details can read >my article at the URL that was quoted on this list.) This is a common and >worrisome pattern of late, and it persists despite extensive documentation. > >Phil Agre ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per month) Matthew Gaylor,1933 E. Dublin-Granville Rd., PMB 176, Columbus, OH 43229 Archived at http://www.egroups.com/list/fa/ **************************************************************************
