Gregory Maxwell wrote: > I don't believe that this is, by any means, only a problem with Fox > although they might be the most obvious and frequent example. > To a first approximation, mainstream media reporting about "Internet institutions" is largely worthless. They mostly know what a webpage is, and look at institutions in terms derived from models they know (the newspaper with its mainly top-down management, the technology corporation). Such reporting can be redeemed by worthly journalism that investigates what actually goes on.
The current rumpus being an example of WP being successfully trolled by Sanger with the cooperation of Fox, it is not really surprising that Fox's reporting is slanted. I think we can expect more of this: it is a position of honour, as far as taking the brunt of Rupert Murdoch's war recently declared on free content is concerned (with Google, of course, and the other search engine companies that dare take advantage of non-noindexed pages on the Web). I think the conclusion should be that admins (such as the one quoted) who mouth off about the doings in the usual hyperbolic terms that we get used to on mailing lists, might have to reconsider their approach to commenting so freely in public, given that this is going to be war of attrition against tabloid tactics. Charles _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
