My apologies -- I see a glitch interrupted my message. Here's the full 
version.
 -Cliff

On Mon, 17 Jul 1995, Clifford M. Meyer wrote:

> Kurtz didn't miss the Time/Cyberporn story -- he was focusing on another 
> angle: the fact that the Internet empowers people of all sorts to respond 
> quickly (and often rudely) to something they disagree with. I think it's 
> pretty clear that this article was not meant to focus on the many
problems with the Rimm study or Time story.

Paul, if you believe that there's little factual basis for Kurtz's account 
of the flaming that has gone on, I think you're viewing some of the 
Rimm/Time-related posts with a very kind spirit!

- -Cliff


> On Sun, 16 Jul 1995, Aaron L Dickey wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 16 Jul 1995, Paul Jones wrote:
> > 
> > > Howard Kurtz in today's Washington Post misses the story on Rimm/Time by 
> > > focusing on "A Flaming Outrage" Just one more story of a news reporter's 
> > > plight of being flamed--inthis case Phillip E-DeW.
> > 
> > Two notes:
> > 
> > 1) Kurtz is an ex-Well subscriber, and may possibly be disgruntled and/or 
> > have an axe to grind.  In any case, it's obvious he's scared of the day 
> > when journalists have to answer to readers.
> > 
> > 2) He got all the quotes through anoter Post reporter with a Well 
> > account.  He didn't read the 1500+ post thread, simply took a few angry 
> > posts out of context.  Good thing it's an opinion piece, because there's 
> > little factual basis to it.
> > 
> > --Aaron
> > 
> 
> 

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