From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 9 22:53:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from relay02.netaddress.usa.net (relay02.netaddress.usa.net [204.68.24.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 547541574B for ; Sun, 9 May 1999 22:53:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jesus.monroy@usa.net) Received: (qmail 17421 invoked from network); 10 May 1999 05:53:40 -0000 Received: from nwcst022.netaddress.usa.net (HELO www02.netaddress.usa.net) (204.68.24.22) by outbound.netaddress.usa.net with SMTP; 10 May 1999 05:53:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 11275 invoked by uid 60001); 10 May 1999 05:53:40 -0000 Message-ID: <19990510055340.11274.qmail@www02.netaddress.usa.net> Received: from 204.68.24.22 by nwcst022 via web-mailer(M3.0.0.118) on Mon May 10 05:53:40 GMT 1999 Date: 9 May 99 22:53:40 PDT From: Jesus Monroy To: paul@originative.co.uk, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [RE: Somewhat in my own defense] Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer (M3.0.0.118) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org paul@originative.co.uk wrote: > = > Journalists like two things. > = > 1) Ready made press releases, generally a small bit of prose that = > makes a > single point clearly that they can more or less cut and paste into thei= r > publication without too much work. Journalists like to minimise = > their work > (who doesn't). > Jordan, with regard to this statement I can say this is absolutely true. You can see my articles at: http://www.markshapiro.com/magsbyauth.html And aside from an occasional interview many times I and many journalist I know would simply take a 'news release' and = print it verbatum. The biggest problem is getting verification of what a company says. So many times = you end up saying things like: So-and-so claims that... or = Just release is.... It all boils down to the same. If you write the way you want it say, then write it that way. M$ knows this and plays on it especially with items like the current Mindcruft issue & RHL. You some perspective and opinion. --- I am not a bot. ____________________________________________________________________ Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=3D= 1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message