Comments on: Irony http://www.mattb.net.nz/blog/2005/11/24/irony/ Matt Browns thoughts on Life, Linux and lots of other things... Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:05:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: matt http://www.mattb.net.nz/blog/2005/11/24/irony/comment-page-1/#comment-164 matt Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:35:02 +0000 http://www.mattb.net.nz/blog/?p=26#comment-164 Hi Francis, I'm well aware that your OSS peice was an editorial or "comment" rather than a news article, but I don't think that changes my comments one iota. The fact remains that it was full of half truths and innacuracies. Regardless of whether it was written as "opinion" or "fact" I think it significantly harms your reputation as a journalist and hence I find the Herald article extremely ironic. Perhaps you can consider that this my editorial. Cheers Hi Francis,

I’m well aware that your OSS peice was an editorial or “comment” rather than a news article, but I don’t think that changes my comments one iota.

The fact remains that it was full of half truths and innacuracies. Regardless of whether it was written as “opinion” or “fact” I think it significantly harms your reputation as a journalist and hence I find the Herald article extremely ironic. Perhaps you can consider that this my editorial.

Cheers

]]> By: francis till http://www.mattb.net.nz/blog/2005/11/24/irony/comment-page-1/#comment-163 francis till Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:26:34 +0000 http://www.mattb.net.nz/blog/?p=26#comment-163 You might want to go back and look at that article I wrote about OSS again, Matt. It's an editorial, not a news story. I'm guessing you're literate enough to know the difference. You might want to go back and look at that article I wrote about OSS again, Matt. It’s an editorial, not a news story. I’m guessing you’re literate enough to know the difference.

]]> By: Paul Wayper http://www.mattb.net.nz/blog/2005/11/24/irony/comment-page-1/#comment-112 Paul Wayper Tue, 17 Jan 2006 04:22:13 +0000 http://www.mattb.net.nz/blog/?p=26#comment-112 So have you written a letter to the editor of the NBR pointing out Mr Till's various factual errors and definite bias? Have you pointed out to the editor that Mr Till does them a lot of harm by quoting inaccurate statistics, jumping to convenient conclusions, using scare tactics ("who would you trust, Microsoft or Open Office?") and using straw-man arguments in his article? Who exactly interviewed him? Convenient boost for Mr Till, isn't it? This is stuff that needs to be waved in people's faces, rather than just noted quietly on some blog somewhere and forgotten... Mad as hell :-), Paul So have you written a letter to the editor of the NBR pointing out Mr Till’s various factual errors and definite bias? Have you pointed out to the editor that Mr Till does them a lot of harm by quoting inaccurate statistics, jumping to convenient conclusions, using scare tactics (“who would you trust, Microsoft or Open Office?”) and using straw-man arguments in his article? Who exactly interviewed him? Convenient boost for Mr Till, isn’t it? This is stuff that needs to be waved in people’s faces, rather than just noted quietly on some blog somewhere and forgotten…

Mad as hell :-) ,

Paul

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