Subject: Re: Hot Wired "Expose" From: chip@wired.com (Chip Bayers) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 23:28:53 -0700

At 2:01 AM 7/12/95, S. Finer wrote:
>Well, what should one expect from a highly partisan account?  This teapot
>tempest they obsess on is primarily an ideology uber alles type "scene".
>
>Journalists use the results of questionable methodology all the time, and
>one hardly ever hears a peep about it. Why is it a story now?  The yelling
>going on here is due to gored oxes, not because of faulty methodology.

Well actually, it is about faulty methodology, along with faulty reporting,
BOTH of which gored our oxe. And we make no apologies for being partisan -
we just don't let it interfere with getting the facts correct. We've just
posted Mike Godwin's first person account of his encounters  with Marty
Rimm, the author of the study, and the writer and reporters on the Time
story before it was published. We've also added most of a remarkable
discussion on the WELL where other journalists helped to tear apart the
Time story.

The full URL is below for those who are interested:

http://www.hotwired.com/special/pornscare/

We'll be adding more soon. Martin Rimm, the author of the study, has quite
a colorful past, as the folks at the Atlantic City Press, among others,
have pointed out. I'm guessing that thoses of you who teach ethics at
journalism schools will soon be adding the Time "Cyberporn" cover story to
your list of case studies of classic screw-ups.

>
>On Tue, 11 Jul 1995, RASCHKE wrote:
>
>> I would be interested if anyone has some readback on the Hotwired expose
>> of the TIME scandal.  It lays out date by date, fact by fact, what really
>> transpired.  If correct, it is really shocking.  The web address is:
>> http://www.hotwired.com
>>
>>


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Chip Bayers                                       email: chip@hotwired.com
                         Managing Editor, HotWired
                          http://www.hotwired.com/



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