One sided reporting continues
Posted Sep 12, 2003 16:16 UTC (Fri) by
josh_stern (guest, #4868)
In reply to:
One sided reporting continues by error27
Parent article:
SCO's McBride on his open letter to the Linux community (ComputerWorld)
>The problem is that the press likes new things. SCO is always changing
>there story to keep it interesting. The open source community has kept
>on saying the same thing over and over.
That's not really the issue here. Rather, the financial press is
organized to index news by the companies involved and there is a
presupposition that whatever press releases a company puts out about its
business is relevant and newsworthy (about that business). There is no
such presupposition about what other unrelated parties have to say about
the business. For example, the New York Times keeps running stories and
editorials about IBM's liability/misconduct in operating semiconductor
manufacturing clean rooms with toxic chemicals that cause cancer and
birth defects during the 1970s and 1980s but you will find few to none of
these stories linked under IBM on Reuters. An actual news development
about a specific lawsuit probably would make its way there, but not a
commentary or general interest piece.
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