Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!decvax!zinn!mem From: mem@zinn.MV.COM (Mark E. Mallett) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: _Boston Herald_ article on JEDR/Templeton case Message-ID: <414@zinn.MV.COM> Date: 6 Dec 88 18:56:37 GMT References: <8304@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Reply-To: mem@zinn.MV.COM (Mark E. Mallett) Organization: Zinn Computer Co., Litchfield NH Lines: 63 In article <8304@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> sethg@athena.mit.edu (Seth Gordon) writes: >The _Boston Herald_ of 12/4/88, page 2, contains an article on the >JEDR/Templeton case. JEDR, who has decided not to post to the net for a >while, would like you all to know that it contains errors... He is not "deciding not to post" by having somebody else post his thoughts for him. All he is doing is the equivalent of casting a remark over his sholder as he slams the door on the way out. I would hope that he either says what he has to say himself, and stays around for the discussion, or doesn't say anything. > I know JEDR personally, and I will vouch for his integrity. In the face of his behaviour, this will take a LOT of vouching for. Remember the "would you hire Morris" quiz? I'll bet this guy would fare much worse in that poll. >The article also refers to his actions as "a one-man campaign." What >are Nancy Gould and David Makowsky, chopped liver? They are people who have engaged in debate against great odds, for which I think they have earned a lot of respect (if not much agreement). JEDR on the other hand has apparently tried to HARM the people he disagrees with, out of an attitude of moral superiority. This is beneath contempt. >Furthermore, the _Boston Herald_ is (or, until very recently, was) owned >by Rupert Murdoch, whose reputation for journalistic integrity, or lack >thereof, is well-known. Consider that statement, then consider that the Herald is the one that ran the story. I wonder if JEDR even tried to contact the Boston Globe, the major newpaper in Boston. >JEDR's current position, I believe, is: he doesn't want to deprive >anyone of their Constitutional rights... Which he is proving in a very strange way. The Herald article says that Richmond is a native of London, England. Is he making this gracious gesture, of not depriving people of their US Constitutional rights, as a US citizen? >Flames on Grand Issues of Free Speech and All That Bullshit go in >/dev/null. Whether you associate them that way in your mind is your own business. I don't. >: Seth Gordon / MIT Brnch., PO Box 53, Cambridge, MA 02139 -mm- -- Mark E. Mallett Zinn Computer Co/ PO Box 4188/ Manchester NH/ 03103 Bus. Phone: 603 645 5069 Home: 603 424 8129 BIX: mmallett uucp: mem@zinn.MV.COM ( ...{decvax|elrond|harvard}!zinn!mem ) Northern MA and Southern NH consultants: Ask me about MV.COM