[Foundation-l] "Filtering" ourselves is pointless

[Keegan Peterzell]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Mike Godwin <mnemonic at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> >
> > We were going to have nonsense articles in Fox whatever we do - that's
> > the way Fox is. Now we have an article on the BBC News website (a very
> > respected news outlet, unlike Fox) saying there is infighting in
> > Wikipedia which we wouldn't have had if Jimmy hadn't acted. I'm far
> > more concerned about the BBC article than I would be any Fox story.
> >
>
> BBC got the story from Fox. There would have been a Fox story regardless,
> and I wouldn't assume that BBC would not have picked up the more
> sensationalistic story that Fox was hoping to run.
>
>
> --Mike, who's been doing this media-ecology stuff for a couple of decades
> now ;)
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