18 Nov 2003
Big Media and Tech News

Why tech news delivered by "Big Media" is usually so woefully ignorant:

Blissful Ignorance: Placement Prostituting the Press. Andrew McLaughlin, in his excellent dismemberment of the BBC's report on the "IPv4 address crisis", is observing not a random piece of sloppy research, but the success of settled policy. That policy, pursued by public relations companies serving information technology and telecommunications (IT&T) companies, is simple to sum up: "identify, support and encourage technically ignorant journalism" [CircleID]

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