Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!hal!nic.MR.NET!tank!kean From: kean@tank.uchicago.edu (keane arase) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Is the news media really that stupid? Summary: Here's my humble idea... Keywords: ignornace, money, power, the usual stuff Message-ID: <1116@tank.uchicago.edu> Date: 9 Dec 88 21:08:48 GMT References: <33065@bbn.COM> <4355@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> <5999@hoptoad.uucp> <1942@sigma.UUCP> <6023@hoptoad.uucp> <885@hdr.UUCP> Reply-To: kean@tank.uchicago.edu (keane arase) Distribution: na Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 48 In article <885@hdr.UUCP> eric@hdr.UUCP (Eric J. Johnson) writes: [Previous Postings deleted] > For a start, I can see two reasons for this >alleged occurence: > > One: Ignorance. News professionals do not know about USENET >and bulletin boards, and if they did, they couldn't understand them anyway. > (Stuff deleted about how we flatter ourselves :-) > > Two: Power. The news professionals wield incredible power over people >through their control of the mass media. People talking to each other >limits the news professionals' power, and increases that of the average person. > (More reasonable argument deleted) > >Any comments? Is there anything we can do about it? > >-- >Eric J. Johnson, Amperif Corporation. UUCP: eric@hdr.UUCP >Perhaps, once upon a time, some Devilish hacker planted a bomb deep in the >human brain such that it would only trigger upon a certain thought passing >through the mind... Perhaps this explains spontaneous human combu***** How about this? Give a major newspaper(s) a feed to usenet. Let them (or a particular reporter) run around reading the news. I'm sure they will find: 1) a wealth of knowledgeable people, 2) a great source for diversified opinions 3) a gathering of people interested in a particular field (i.e. rec.guns, soc.*, macintoshes, ibm's, unix, etc.) 4) what this network is really about. Agreed that a reporter using news may be inappropriate within the charters of the net, but wouldn't that free up many confused or ignorant conceptions about us? -- Keane Arase, Systems Programmer University of Chicago Computing Organizations Acedemic and Public Computing, Technical Project Support kean@tank.uchicago.edu syskean@uchimvs1.uchicago.edu ** Please file the standard disclaimers here **