According to xerxes:
> 
> Eric and I agree here...comments below.....
> 
> Advertising and publishing no longer mean exactly what they used to
> mean....and the subtle differences cause trouble in discussions now.  Is
> your interlocutor referring to the traditional meaning, ...or not?   Are
> they aware of the changes in nuance?  Should you try to use newer terms?
> Won't that be interpreted as presumptuous jargon?   I have a tough time
> explaining these issues to folks who have not spent at least a few hundred
> hours online....preferable outside one of the COLS.
	You could try explaining these "issues" to me.  

I know I'm p***ing into a hurricane here, but the Internet doesn't change
certain things.  One of the things it doesn't change is the irritation/
rage/resignation of the intelligent consumer who knows that his/her
news is being paid for by advertising, and is therefore _contaminated_
by the interest of the advertisers.  Before the Internet there was nothing
that could be done about this: you had advertising, you knew your daily
newspaper or your Time/Newsweek/Economist was dancing to the tune of the
people/companies who paid their bills and you swallowed your I/R/R.

The Internet has the potentiality(still to fully emerge, I _hope_) to
change all that.  But not if the majority temperament on this list
holds sway.  (Most of) You are caught in the old paradigm, and attempt
to swath your antiquated reflexes in recondite verbiage(my metaphors
always get mixed when I get agitated)

Do any of you seriously think that the Internet has suspended the
adages: "Money talks" and "Who pays the piper calls the tune"?

Best wishes,

Alan McConnell

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