>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.
Salon had an interesting article about the mechanics of a net-news hoax a
couple weeks ago:
http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/rose/1998/07/22straight.html
tracing the hows & whys of the (in retrospect) transparent fraud which was
ourfirsttime.com.
speaking as the ranking web jockey in a company that owns a couple dozen
newspapers, the print news medium still has a whole lotta learning to do
before i'd trust them with anything as complex as, say, the time of day
or the weather.
mike stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 'net geek..
been there, done that, have network, will travel.
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