>COMPAQ SAYS NO DEAL ON ALTAVISTA DOMAIN
>Compaq disputed published reports Tuesday that it purchased
>the altavista.com domain name for more than $3 million. . .
>http://www.techweb.com/infoseek/wire/story/TWB19980728S0014
Hmmm...article says that Compaq says its talks "are not yet concluded."
Once again, the rumor mill is ahead of reality.
You know, one of the reasons I majored in Journalism way back when was that
it was the only career I knew of where there was an official someone whose
job it was to make sure you got your facts right. A fact checker was an
important part of any newsroom at one point -- not only that, I remember
the days when legitimate newsrooms had a rule that you could't quote a
source without finding two other sources to back them up.
Seems to me that ever since news organizations started making freelance
writers carry their own liability insurance (so if someone sues, the paper
isn't liable, just the writer) that facts have been checked less and less.
A bad trend in my mind. And much as I love the 'net, the speed of
communication on this puppy is making this trend into a problem.
--Tamra Heathershaw-Hart
(who wishes she had a fact checker for some of the proposals she wrote
recently -- is it really possible to get that much done in that schedule?)
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