Re: Federal agents' visit was a hoax

[David LaPorte <david_laporte () harvard edu>]

Given how easily this lie was slurped up and regurgitated by the media,
I wonder how much of the basis for believing it was "plausible" is also
just as baseless.

Dave

Fergie wrote:
> Thanks for saying it -- I was just about to send a message to
> the list saying almost the same thing. :-)
>
> - ferg
>
>
> -- Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
>
> On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:23:21 PST, Anthony Rodgers said:
> > I think it's the reputations of the media agencies that ran with the  
> > story that should suffer.....
> >
> > .... assuming, of course, that they had any to start with....
>
> The sad part is that the only reason the story had any legs at all because we
> believed it to be plausible behavior on the government's part.
>
>
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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