At 06:04 PM 8/4/99 , Nick Patience wrote:
>>>No!! Shocker! The press - even the tech trade press didn't understand
>>>about vulnerabilities in their bind! Come on, most of the trade press move
>>>around beats with reasonable regularity and cannot be expected to have the
>>>same level of understanding on EVERY issue as everyone on these lists.
>>>
>>>Ellen hit the problem on the head when she said:
>>>
>>>"Mention ICANN and a reporter must then also describe the whole transfer of
>>>functions from NSF to NTIA,
>>>from IANA to ICANN. Most readers' eyes will glaze over before you can say
>>>IFWP."
>>
>>Sorry Nick, I still don't buy it.
>>
>>We are not talking about rocket science
>>here, although framing the debate as the
>>exploration of the size of a UDP packet
>>certainly supports your claim.
>>
>>Bottom line, the story about ICANN is
>>very simple: It's about the establishment
>>of a governance body over the Internet, one
>>that is *supposed* to reflect a bottom-up
>>consensus building process, one that *isn't*!
>>
>>Show me *one* story written from this
>>perspective that has made its way out
>>to the broad audience of the general
>>daily newspapers, and I'll admit that
>>I was mistaken.
>
>I can't do that as I don't now of one, but my knowledge is by no means
>exhaustive!
>
>I know what you're getting at Jay, but if a hack could get away with
>writing just what you did as a story, without getting all sides involved,
>explaining what DNS means, what ICANN is, what NSI does etc etc, and then
>get it passed an editor they would, or at least I hope they would.
Well, thank you for proving my point.
It's not that reporters aren't trying,
it's that the editors and publishers aren't
allowing these stories in their publications.
And even when a good story is written, it
is not picked up by the wire services.
It's exactly as the Spotlight reporter
alleged.
Jay.
P.S. Nick is one of the best reporters
covering this debate. None of my comments
are directed at him personally.
>I tried to get one of the most politically-astute UK nationals interested
>last autumn and I got an abrupt and frankly insulting note fired back
>shouting, "you're to close to the subject, I don't give a toss about this
>subject" etc.
>
>He wanted the entire story in 400 words by the next morning UK time, then
>shouted at me for abbreviating Network Solutions Incorporated to NSI. At
>that point I went back to writing long pieces to my own word length.
>
>Nick
>
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