Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 29, 2004 01:41 AM
"the body of the article is reasonable..."
Are you sure? How difficult would it have been for CNN to call Bruce, or get a response from another prominent member of the OSS community? Yet there are no OSS/Linux people quoted in the article. Is that fair and balanced reporting? Or is it advocating a particular position under the guise of reporting news?
As Bernie Goldberg keeps pointing out in his books, bias is not necessarily about specifically advocating a particular point of view, it is about not presenting other viewpoints (which would be labelled CENSORING if it were the government doing the excluding).
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Re:Bruce is right
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 29, 2004 01:41 AMAre you sure? How difficult would it have been for CNN to call Bruce, or get a response from another prominent member of the OSS community? Yet there are no OSS/Linux people quoted in the article. Is that fair and balanced reporting? Or is it advocating a particular position under the guise of reporting news?
As Bernie Goldberg keeps pointing out in his books, bias is not necessarily about specifically advocating a particular point of view, it is about not presenting other viewpoints (which would be labelled CENSORING if it were the government doing the excluding).
-Rabid Conservative
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