At 07:38 PM 1/11/96 -0500, hallam@w3.org wrote:
Has anyone heard anything else about this? I am getting real sick of the media's portrayal of the internet. They never say anything good about it.
At the last World Wide Web consortium meeting I said that the media were pumping up the bubble and their favourite game is to see if they can destroy what they have the arrogance to imagine they created.
That is why we have to replace the press. Consider this in the next election voters on the Internet will be able to read the press releases of the candidates without the press filtering them. There is the potential for the internet citizens to participate in shaping the political agenda - another role the press likes to usurp for itself.
I recently held a workshop on political use of the Web which was attended by Republican and Democrat party workers and political activists from 6 other countries. One thing that suprized me was the consensus amongst the politicians that the differences between them were smaller than their differences with the press.
To take one example. A collumnist in the New York Times recently received much coverage for calling the First Lady "a congenital liar". Yet little mention is made of the fact that said collumnist worked for both Nixon and Spiro Agnew and has never condemned either for their actions.
Phill
It is disgusting to me. I would really like to do something about it. I use to have a sig file(s) that said: "The revolution will not be televised but the proceeedings will be available oonline." During the french revolution someone said "Look their is a revolt" And another replied "No, a revolution." Or something to that affect. But anyway I say we as a community do something. Look around the potential is here for something big e.g. C2.org -- ==================Douglas Elznic=================== delznic@storm.net http://www.vcomm.net/~delznic/ (315)682-5489 (315)682-1647 4877 Firethorn Circle Manlius, NY 13104 "Challenge the system, question the rules." =================================================== PGP key available: http://www.vcomm.net/~delznic/pgpkey.asc PGP Fingerprint: 68 6F 89 F6 F0 58 AE 22 14 8A 31 2A E5 5C FD A5 ===================================================