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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Is the news media really that stupid?
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Date: 19 Dec 88 06:15:25 GMT
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Reply-To: bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells)
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In article <787@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> flash@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan) writes:
: >     Whenever I have attended any event covered by the news
: >     media, their covering of the story has been materially
: >     different from what I have seen.

: One exception: the Economist's coverage ...

The Economist is very high on my list of Must Read. Whenever I've
been able to check what they say, they've been mostly accurate.

They had an article on the Internet Worm; their biggest gaffe was
supposing that the GNU project's UNIX clone would in some way help
solve some UNIX security problems. Not likely, if what I hear about
RMS's beliefs about security is true.

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Bill
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