Date: 9 May 99 22:53:40 PDT From: Jesus Monroy <jesus.monroy@usa.net> To: paul@originative.co.uk, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [RE: Somewhat in my own defense] Message-ID: <19990510055340.11274.qmail@www02.netaddress.usa.net>
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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.
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I am not a bot.
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