CNN.com - A real!!! news story...

[Declan McCullagh]

CNN.com may not have included it because the AP article did not show up
on all feeds and Reuters ran one very late in the day. 

You used the CNN.com "example" as a way to launch into conspiracy
theorizing, and you were wrong.

-Declan


On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 10:43:51AM -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
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> On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
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> > Yes, clearly the media is covering up this decision.
> 
> Not at all. My initial point was that it had media coverage. It was simply
> a inquisitive observation about the priority setting mechanisms of the
> COMMERCIAL media and how even 'independent critical' press had economic
> incentives as well. It further demonstrate the asymmetry in the results
> with respect to what is 'important' enough to be 'news'.
> 
> As I've said before in this forum, not all 'cooperative' behaviour is
> necessarily a 'conspiracy', if enough people act in concert the effect is
> the same. In many cases it is the quantity and not the intent that is
> important. Is the 'economic' theory of the 'guiding hand' not the same sort
> of 'conspiracy' theory?
> 
> There's more in heaven and earth...
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