Re: Edison

["John J. Urbaniak" <jjurban@ibm.net>]

Brett Glass wrote:
> 
> At 12:25 AM 1/2/99 -0500, Mitch Stone wrote:
> 
> >Most? Most of _what_?
> 
> Most biographers of Edison.
> 
> >I don't recall the electric chair story, but I can't see the relevance.
> 
> It's very relevant. Edison was engaging in a PR smear campaign to
> denigrate a solution that was actually superior to his own. (Microsoft
> has done the same numerous times.) He likewise used PR, as Gates did,
> in an attempt to be remembered as a genius and to be given credit for
> inventions that were made not by him but by his staff. Or, in some
> cases, by third parties whom he funded or bought out.

Tell me then, why are such PR campaigns successful?  What is wrong with
the Press that, time and time again, they fall for these campaigns?

I think the Press are the real villains here.  They're the ones who are
supposed to uncover the truth.  Instead, they propagate the lies.

John