[ale] A little show of force?

[F. Grant Robertson]

Something, anything..  Please dear god in heaven. Anything to wake up
anyone in media. I don't know if a show is the idea, but couldn't we all
start writing letters to local stations demanding that they at least
present the whole picture when talking about viruses? 

I just watched a 5 minute segment on Fox 5 news about SoBig. In 5
minutes, not _one_ _single_ _solitary_ _mention_ of the fact that only
Microsoft systems are vulnerable, no mention of business who use macs or
linux being immune.. nothing. They didn't even use the *word* microsoft
in the report. I really didn't think it was possible to do 5 minutes on
it without using the word Microsoft, but they managed.

I am consistently amazed at this. If *anything* else caused such massive
disruption, the media would stand on it like a soapbox. Crikey, they
even did most of the report from the VA hospital, not a single mention
of the wasted tax dollars in productivity or IT overtime. I'm so fed up
with this, and I know many of you are too.. what are we going to do
about it?  

Sigh, Linux needs a massive PR machine. 
-G


On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 16:42, hbbs at comcast.net wrote:
> You know, with MS worms in the news and affecting work and home computers,
> wouldn't now be a good time to have some sort of public show, where a TV station
> or two could be invited out?  

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