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Microsoft Spinning Against OpenDocument Via Fox News

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the strangest-thing-you'll-see-lately dept.

srwalter writes "As previously reported, Fox News previously ran an article by James Prendergast criticizing Massachussetts for switching to OpenDocument format. Today, Fox News has distanced itself from that article significantly. In a new front page story they post several emails in defense of Massachussetts and OpenDocument in general, as well as apologize for not acknowledging that Prendergast's organization is funded by Microsoft."

19 of 559 comments (clear)

  1. Fair and Balanced... by delcielo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good for them. For once they truly seem fair and balanced.

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    1. Re:Fair and Balanced... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Please, let us be fair and balanced ourselves in condemning Fox's behavior here.

      This is /. where fair and balanced only applies to linux and the political left

    2. Re:Fair and Balanced... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      No, they just post duplicates.

    3. Re:Fair and Balanced... by Intron · · Score: 2, Funny

      Scroll down to Only on Fox - Open Document Debate.

      Noone has mentioned the other big tech news story on the site:

            Python Invasion in Florida

      Also, are italics tags supposed to work in an html title? Doesn't work on FireFox.

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    4. Re:Fair and Balanced... by jrumney · · Score: 5, Funny
      1. We Report (incorrectly)
      2. You Decide (without RTFA)
      3. We Report (duplicate)
      4. ....
      5. Profit!
    5. Re:Fair and Balanced... by killjoe · · Score: 2, Funny

      Maybe that should be new slogan of Fox News. "Fox news, we are as bad as slashdot".

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  2. Fox News by geomon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fair *and* Balanced.

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  3. In other news... by zwilliams07 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Today during a recent survey funded by Micro$oft. Playstation 3 will give you brain tumors, and Nintendo Revolution gives you Cancer.

  4. What teh..!? by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 5, Funny

    "FUD"?
    "Microsoft has a long and well-documented history of not supporting standards."?
    "embrace and extend practice"?

    O.O OH boy, those ARE slashdotters' comments!
    Guys, we're on FOXnews! :D

  5. Re:Politics? by Wilson_6500 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hear this Bill O'Reilly guy is a little right-of-center.

  6. Fox news is like a slashdot poll.... by MrByte420 · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.

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  7. Aha! by RedNovember · · Score: 1, Funny

    So all the evils in the world *are* connected! Microsoft + Bush + Fox News + Dumpers + Giant Squid = EEEEVVIIIILLLLL!!!

    Thank you, I'll be here all night.

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  8. Re:Politics? by Delphiki · · Score: 3, Funny
    Heck, one could make the case that Slashdot is extremely biased and inaccurate every day.

    One could also make cases for the following:

    • 1 + 1 = 2
    • The sky is blue.
    • Bill Gates is rich.
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  9. Re:"seem" indeed... by Glock27 · · Score: 2, Funny
    Call me crazy, but if Fox reported John Kerry was a space alien during the election and then it was later "discovered" that the source was a republican party staffer- Fox would do little more than shrug, because half their audience wouldn't care, and the other half would still think Kerry was an alien.

    As opposed to CBS, where if Dan Rather were caught running a story with no factual evidence, which was received from an admitted Bush-hater and designed to throw the presidential election for Kerry, they would immediately fire him and distance the network from the story with massively visible retractions...oh, wait.

    LOL!

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  10. Re:HowTo Letter an Editor by sedyn · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can we still imply and infer that microsoft is evil?

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  11. At least Fox News is free by RentonSentinel · · Score: 2, Funny

    People pay to subscribe to this shit at slashdot and to watch Bill Gates spin about making College Appearances....

  12. Re:Fair and balanced by ndansmith · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, but "Massachusetts Should Close Down Open Document" is a lot more clever than "Everyone should drop Microsoft." Maybe it should be "Everyone should whack Microsoft with a big hard stick" or something like that.

  13. May I suggest... by Irish_Samurai · · Score: 2, Funny

    You get your news from somewhere other than TV?

  14. Re:Nice job, but yer playin' with fire! by Absentminded-Artist · · Score: 3, Funny

    Be careful. You just said something positive about FoxNews. Groupthink around here is that FoxNews is in bed with Satan. Waitaminute, groupthink around here holds religion to be bad, too.

    At any rate, to go and point out that FoxNews corrected the actual news article in question and took full responsibility while also posting dissenting views flies in the face of all the posts above yours. Never mess with groupthink, man. Groupthink still holds to the belief that conservatives believe Sadam Hussein bombed the WTC. You go and confront groupthink with actual facts and you'll get it all grumpy and everything...

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