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Jobs Rumor Debacle Besmirches Citizen Journalism
On Friday someone posted a false rumor that Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack on CNN's unverified citizen journalism site, iReport. Apple's stock price went vertical, losing 9% before Apple stepped in and denied the rumor; the stock then recovered most of its loss. The SEC is investigating. PCWorld looks at the hit taken by citizen journalism as a result of this incident. "[The] increasingly blurred line between journalism and rumor is a serious concern for Al Tompkins, the broadcast/online group leader at The Poynter Institute — a specialized school for journalists of all media forms. 'How could you possibly allow just anybody to post just anything under your [CNN] label unless you have blazing billboards that say, "None of this has been verified, we've not looked at any of this, we have no idea if this is true"?' he asks."
Same deal for the "citizen scientists" who prove that cell phones cook eggs and pop corn.
Or the "citizen paparazzi" that use photoshop to make nude pics of various actresses.
Or wikipedia,...
Engineering is the art of compromise.
Really, i bet if somebody rumored Ballmer died of a [strike]chair[/strike]stroke their stock would go vertical too, just in the otherway.
IranAir Flight 655 never forget!
Obama will castrate our military and destroy our nuclear deterrent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxL8NcNACBY
He will tax corporations and high income earners that employ the population of the US, which will force them to cut jobs and send the unemployment rate skyrocketing.
http://obama.3cdn.net/b7be3b7cd08e587dca_v852mv8ja.pdf
He sees dead people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=galtZF0nKYc
He wants to take the guns out of the hands of law abiding citizens, leaving us at the mercy of criminals.
http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/barack_obama_gun_control.htm
He'll cut and run from Iraq, knocking the legs out from under the Iraqi government as they are finally finding their footing.
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/iraq/
He believes homosexuals are entitled to more rights than straight people.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/23/debate.transcript/index.html
He believes in mob rule concerning criminal punishment.
The Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama, p. 58
He refuses to call terrorists "terrorists" even when presented with evidence.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15251928
He will prevent us from keeping sensitive materials confidential, which will place national security at risk.
http://www.cfr.org/publication/14356/
He would talk with terrorist countries without demanding that they cease their efforts to murder innocent people and abide by the rule of law.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3Oj7Jn9rv4
He believes we should reward people who ignore the existence of a country's sovereignty and illegally enter the country instead of forcing them to abide by the law.
http://obama.senate.gov/news/060923-sen_obama_at_to/index.php
He believes the government should regulate the internet.
http://obama.senate.gov/podcast/060608-network_neutral/index.php
He believes in making those who have money pay for the healthcare of those who do not have money.
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/healthcare/
He believes we should take corn, a staple food for the US, and use it for ethanol production, which will cause shortages in food supply and produce car exhaust that is more dangerous to humans than gasoline burning cars.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/01/05/new_us_congress_looks_to_boost_alternate_fuels/?p1=MEWell_Pos5
He believes that parents should have no choice but to send their children to government run schools to be indoctrinated by sub-standard teachers.
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/citations/04/041027.obama-ct.html
In short, he's an anti-American, anti-military Marxist who will destroy the US before he can be voted out of office. I don't like McCain and I have problems with many of his positions, but he will, at the very least, keep the US from crashing and burning within the next 4 years (provided the Dems don't win Congress).
And no, he's not a Muslim (as far as we know). He's not black (he's bi-racial). He's not a Christian (against everything Ch
That guy used to work for Slate/MSN. You have to wonder how involved M$ was then and now with this his blatant manipulation. M$ has been unable to float their own stock price (or Novell's, but that's a different story) despite anouncing a $40 billion dollar buy back plan, their biggest ever. M$ is trying to blame their failure on the credit crunch and would love it if other tech companies also failed. So far, only companies in the M$ family are sick. Then we see these stories and lawsuits against Apple and Google - how very fucking convenient.
Hiring freeze, debt, sinking like a stone. Last one out, cut off the light's oxygen.
It's about time.
Political torture and murder is not funny http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=581079&cid=23757591
Yeah, ESR predicted this in 2004. Four years and $60 billion dollars later, it looks like he was right.
No calls now, I'm
Ha ha. Sleep tight MicroTards, next week is going to be a bitch for you.
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