Everyone is biased by their prior experiences, but the article isn't claiming Dave was biased. It's claiming he was a "covert PR shill". Determining that a reporter had acted as a covert PR mouthpiece just because the reporter eventually became employed by said company is one of the weakest pieces of circumstantial evidence I've ever seen. So the "cognitive leap" is like jumping the grand canyon in my opinion.
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I guess that depends on how you define "PR shill." If it just means biased reporting, then it could be valid.
Ha! That one I know the answer to.
They weren't, so it's a moot point.
They weren't, so it's a moot point.
Someone just summoned Kevin Bacon.
That would be a "no" and a "no", in that order.
Yup, you are entirely correct in your view/assessment...at least IMHO.
Now there I'd tend to disagree with you, but respectfully at least.
Closing it would be dismissing it, but it would be seen by some as a fascist thing to do to stop people from bad talking. Just blowing the charges out of the water for the ridiculusness they represent seems a much better/funner/more entertaining idea.
IMHO, of course.
Closing it would be dismissing it, but it would be seen by some as a fascist thing to do to stop people from bad talking. Just blowing the charges out of the water for the ridiculusness they represent seems a much better/funner/more entertaining idea.
IMHO, of course.
It's not even out of the Inq. It's from a letter.
See Geo's response here:
http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38463
See Geo's response here:
http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38463
Closing this thread can only be seen as fascist if this had anything to do with Rys, which isn't the case, hence my second sentence (which many can fail to grasp its true meaning -- hierarchy, history -- which is understandable).
I just don't really wish to see the current B3D to be dragged into this kind of thing. Even if Dave was some "covert ATI PR shill" (which I definitely don't think so, not in those terms), it still has nothing to do with the current B3D. I think Geo's conduct in the forums since he joined B3D is evidence of Rys' trust in Geo's integrity. Any attempts by anyone now (not 2005, before Rys took over and asked Geo to join him) to plant seeds of distrusting thoughts in Geo's integrity would be doing exactly the same with Rys.
This thread is based on nonsense IOW.
TBH, I'm a little disappointed but not entirely surprised.
They weren't, so it's a moot point.
That is correct. Not ATI and not B3D staff. And that's as far as I go. Go grill Hanners on who his source was, since we never talked about it before hand and there he was on the thread within minutes saying he'd heard the same things . . . well, I don't really mean 'go grill Hanners' so much as I mean it turns out it was floating around in the background; I'm just the guy who pointed at it in public first.
Edit: deleted. Not sure now after a re-read.
Hmm, Interesting. Im sure some want this and wish this would fly under the radar.
http://johnrreynolds.blogspot.com/2007/04/online-windmills-and-journalistic.html
http://johnrreynolds.blogspot.com/2007/04/online-windmills-and-journalistic.html
Discussing it serves no useful purpose. B3D is in new hands following Wavey's excellent stewardship, and thus I'd appreciate everyone moving on from gripes of old. The other thread on the subject was locked, and this one isn't for discussing it either.
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