On 17/12/2007, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
While it's unfortunate, the stories are not picking up legs in more traditional media and so forth.
The real papers tend to call people before writing the story, e.g. http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/248315/ - where the main interest was a collateral damage block to a local ISP. Note the difference in tone to the Register story.
We would more likely fail our institutional and community goals and integrity by attempting to act in a way to avoid any negative press and try to make all our critics happy all the time than we are to fail due to what's happened so far. We should neither ignore outside criticism when it points out valid problems nor conform to its myriad pressures without careful thought and assessment.
Overreaction to the press has so far been the enemy of getting things right.
- d.