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Monday, August 18, 2008

Rewiring Wired

Wired’s RED article turned out to be the result of a large game of “telephone”

I’ve spoken now with both the author of the Wired article and Jim Jannard and I’m convinced the technical errors in the article are simply a matter of someone outside the industry trying to understand some complexities that not many inside our industry totally understand.

That, combined with a separate fact checker unfamiliar with our industry and an editor who had to reduce the length of the article, resulted in a large game of “telephone.” (For those not familiar with this old children’s game, everyone sits around in a circle and someone whispers a sentence

I was really wound up by the errors in the article, but after talking to all concerned and having written some articles myself I can see how this is not only possible, but probably hard to avoid.

The author has asked me to send him a list of technical corrections, so I’m working on that now. If anyone has any they want to add, post them in comments or email them and I can include them with my list. Or email the author directly--his web site is at http://michaelbehar.com/.

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The idea of a “fact checker” who is “unfamiliar with our industry” sounds like the purest case of an oxymoron I can imagine.

Posted by Chris Meyer  on  08/18  at  03:47 PM


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