On 14/12/2007, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, Tabloids have an infinite capability of spin. the assumption that you can prevent them from misrepresenting "truth" is precarious, borderline insane. So it is a situation where you only lose anyway. Given our communities abilty to rub salt in wounds, we do not even need others to inflict damage.
Tabloids like scoops. If you go public yourself, they loose the opportunity for a scoop and then don't really care.
Also, what do you mean by 'misrepresenting "truth"'? No-one has denied any of the allegations made in the The Register article. As far as I can tell, they were reasonably accurate in their reporting (unusual, I know, but it seems this story doesn't need much in the way of spin).