on 7/7/02 23:11, Jim Witte at jswitte_at_bloomington.in.us wrote:
> See the whole story and the karma-comment show at
> http://apache.slashdot.org/apache/02/07/07/1753208.shtml?tid=107 . I
> wonder if this could ever come to mean Newtontalk? We're not a
> 'publication' exactly, but to the conspiracy theorist in me (the SMALL
> conspiracy theorist thank you), this sounds like a "we (I - Steve J)
> don't like you, so we'll just say you're "rumor promoting"..)
It's important to note that nobody is being "banned" from the show - they
are just not getting *free* press passes. In my opinion, many of these
websites are not journalistic in nature and so don't deserve press passes.
But you're right in that they don't like being scooped. Of course, it really
isn't about "stealing thunder" but about reducing sales of existing models
based on information about future models.
-Mick
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