On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:33 AM, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
On Friday 20 Mar 2009, Dinesh A. Joshi wrote:
Venkatesh Hariharan wrote:
Lazy journalism. In the age of the internet, fact checks are just a click away.
Not everybody has access to the Internet.
Ya. especially tech journos writing about databases. This one lives in the outer islands of tuvalu and sent the report to kandivali press by rfc 1149
I think the joke was lost on your audience. I will still try to revive it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFC_1149
There are so many goof ups in Indian newspapers these days, I think all editors do is smoothen out their political affiliations and all that proof readers do is check the red squiggly in Microsoft Word (R).
These journos are some of the most clueless people in the world, and usually they write motivated briefs. The Microsoft foundation is financially a much more potent force than the GNU variety. Even the more informed correspondents somehow start toeing the unethical line. Read the Patently Absurd byline in yesterday's Business Standard about IIT Bombay selling itself to Nathan Myhrvold, and you will know.