News coverage, Verisign etc.

Wed Oct 8 19:28:41 UTC 2003

At 03:06 PM 08/10/2003, up at 3.am wrote:

>In these days of corporate malfeasance scandal coverage, you'd think that
>Verisign's tactics would have whetted the appetite of some bright
>investigative reporter for one of the major publications.

Too difficult and obscure a topic to make interesting.  Its even worse than 
the S&L scandal of the 80s.  Things like ice statues pissing vodka at 
private million dollar parties are easy to cover in that a picture says it 
all.... There is no easy way to convey this issue to the general public in 
just a few words and at the same time not put them to sleep....

         ---Mike

>On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:
>
> >
> > I have gotten a reasoned response from the technology editor of the
> > Washington Post, and we are discussing things.  While I wouldn't have
> > done it that way, he had a rational explanation of why the story was
> > written the way it was, and definitely indicating there will be
> > continuing coverage of the issue.  He believes there's always room
> > for improving coverage.
> >
>
>James Smallacombe                     PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
>up at 3.am                                                     http://3.am
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