[Am-info] Re: Journalism is dead, long live "the media"

[Glenn T. Livezey, Ph.D.]

>"John J. Urbaniak" <jjurban@attglobal.net> wrote
>The PC Press, especially ZD has been biased towards MS from the 
>beginning. The articles they wrote about OS/2. back in the old days, 
>always contained words like "struggling," "failing," "dead," while 
>articles about Windows contained words like "latest" and "cool."
>One of the most significant things to come out of the Enron mess is 
>that the company *paid* reporters and journalists basically for doing 
>nothing. It is inconceivable that these payments didn't affect the 
>reporter's coverage. I have no doubt that Microsoft also *paid* 
>"journalists" then and now. Hideous! Those PC writers are the truest 
>form of scum. There is a very low floor in Hell waiting for them.

Now, now, "journalists" paid to skew their prose toward their patron?
I'm shocked. Since when? The only difference between the bad old days
and now is that no one seems to think they need to hide their evil
ways anymore. Corporate does as Corporate is. When the 'media' 
(so few deserve more than the generic title anymore) are wholly owned
subsidiaries of MEGABUCKS, Inc., unLTD, AND the 'justice' department
is nothing more than an outsourced legal consultant for the largest
campaign contributors of the current administration, what do you
expect? Enron is only different from Microsoft in 3 ways: they are 
in a different phase of the sham 'investigation', the top executives
may actually have outdone even Bill Gates in pure greed and hubris,
and Lay & company actually DID "innovate" a new business model, 
complete with extensive rewriting of the law before, during and after
the crime, as opposed to Gates ignoring the law until after his
conviction and having it reinterpreted to make him forever immune.

Funny how "W" didn't mention that the "honor" he swore to restore
to the White House was the "honor" among thieves.

And if any of you think the DOJvsM$ case would have taken the same
turn it has if W hadn't succeeded in his hostile takeover of USA,Inc.,
I've got some slightly damp offshore realestate to sell you. 

Glenn
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