SCO and Public Perception

SCO and Public Perception

Posted Mar 11, 2004 5:00 UTC (Thu) by mcelrath (guest, #8094)
Parent article: SCO and Public Perception

The lack of accurate articles in the mainstream press is simply a reflection of the fact that investigative journalism is all but dead. Mainstream press outlets simply regurgitate corporate press releases and AP wire stories, without fact checking or any investigation. This is mostly a result of massive consolidation among media companies. Journalists have been fired in favor of talking heads and cut-and-paste kids. SCO is using this to their advantage.

Consider the lack of mainstream investigation on the topics of Iraq and 9/11 (US media regurgitates whatever the white house says), Electronic Voting (investigated and brought to the forefront by Deb Harris, a private citizen), and of course SCO...

The future of accurate, investigative media is clearly in the hands of web site operators such as our esteemed editor, the Motley Fool, Drudge Report, and blogs. Unfortunately, web sites generally have no editorial control (anyone who reads slashdot can attest to this), and generally propagate rumors as bad as your neighborhood knitting circle.

This is a topic that concerns me greatly, but I'm getting far from the subject at hand...Linux...

-- Bob

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