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Re: fascinating deceptive writing in news [was: Great NPR foo]
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:19:01 -0400
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:21:19 +0300, Gadi Evron said:
2. @DDrazic (Drazen Drazic) shared the following link discussing Internet censorship in Australia sometime in February. I found the text especially fascinating. http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,25062518-5013038,00.html The author uses baseless demagogy. Also, he does some pretty cool things with words. He is a good writer and makes me his friend when I read his article, but he is also completely full of b/s: 1. He "boils" us slowly with examples we can relate to, showing us how our boy can get home from school and with simple searches on the net for say, horse-back riding can end up in a porn site showing something else entirely.
Did this story get edited/replaced since you read it? Currently, at least as seen from where I am, it *starts* off with: "A boy comes home from school and logs on to the computer. He types in a search for, say, 'sex pictures'. Thousands of sites appear and he starts exploring. ..." Horses don't enter into it until later.
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- Re: Off Topic: Great NPR foo.. Paul M. Moriarty (Apr 16)
- Re: Off Topic: Great NPR foo.. Alex Lanstein (Apr 16)
- Re: Off Topic: Great NPR foo.. Alex Eckelberry (Apr 16)
- Re: Off Topic: Great NPR foo.. Larry Seltzer (Apr 16)
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- Re: Off Topic: Great NPR foo.. David M Chess (Apr 16)
- Re: Off Topic: Great NPR foo.. Larry Seltzer (Apr 16)
- Re: Off Topic: Great NPR foo.. Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 16)
- Re: Off Topic: Great NPR foo.. Alex Eckelberry (Apr 16)
- Re: Off Topic: Great NPR foo.. Tahi List (Apr 16)
- fascinating deceptive writing in news [was: Great NPR foo] Gadi Evron (Apr 16)
- Re: fascinating deceptive writing in news [was: Great NPR foo] Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 17)
- Re: fascinating deceptive writing in news [was: Great NPR foo] Gadi Evron (Apr 17)
- Re: fascinating deceptive writing in news [was: Great NPR foo] Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 20)
- Re: fascinating deceptive writing in news [was: Great NPR foo] Gadi Evron (Apr 20)
- Re: Off Topic: Great NPR foo.. O'Reirdan, Michael (Apr 16)
- Re: Off Topic: Great NPR foo.. Alex Eckelberry (Apr 16)
- Re: Off Topic: Great NPR foo.. Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 16)
- Re: Off Topic: Great NPR foo.. David M Chess (Apr 16)
- Re: Off Topic: Great NPR foo.. robert_mcmillan (Apr 16)