On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 08:20:54PM -0500, Steven Bellovin wrote: > > On Jan 27, 2011, at 4:53 22PM, mikea wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:26:58PM -0800, Mark Keymer wrote: > >> What I don't understand is I can only guess they must have a IT team. > >> And Maybe even 1 or more people that view this list. Why don't they just > >> talk to there own staff about the issues? Maybe one of the IT guess saw > >> the issues talked about the articles and contacted the news team about > >> the bad info. I donno. I agree they kind of did a poor job on this. > >> > >> If you work at FOX maybe you should help get the news guys on the right > >> page. :) > > > > My experience working with newspaper and TV reporters leads me to believe > > that they can't recognize when they're on the wrong page, and will > > sacrifice accuracy to catchy titles and text "simplified" to the point > > of being ludicrously wrong -- at least when it comes to topics such as > > computers, networking, and spam. I certainly don't expect any better of > > Fox. > > > > Mmm... I've dealt with the press a lot. In general, the reporters from > well-respected news organizations really are a lot better. One can > argue cause and effect; the fact remains that when I've talked to the > NY Times, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, and the Washington Post, I've > been a lot happier with what appeared than when, say, I've spoken with > (quite literally) Entertainment Weekly. No, the major outlets haven't > been perfect, and I've occasionally spoken with reporters who, shall > we say, didn't know which end the high-order bit was on; in general, > though, my comments hold. > > Fox? Since I don't see that the Tea Party has any particular axe to > grind here (the administration is neither pushing IPv6 on a reluctant > private sector nor is it responsible for the forthcoming debacle), > they're probably in the middle of the pack.
Mine was considerably less exalted: network TV stations and the local poor excuse for a newspaper. The newspaper reporter tried, but just got it *so* wrong. The TV folks didn't even try, and got it even wronger. I was being interviewed on spam and botnets, which is a fairly arcane topic, and wasn't surprised. -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mi...@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin