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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.sol.net!uniserve!van-bc!news2.cais.net!news.cais.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.hic.net!news From: ctilbury@hic.net (Charles A. Tilbury) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Date: 22 Apr 1996 15:21:33 GMT Organization: NoneYaFuckingBusiness Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4lg85t$42f@news.hic.net> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <tporczykDq3C55.4zE@netcom.com> <4l96pm$mrt@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <4lecrd$155@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <4lg7al$ap4@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.249.225.17 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.7 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:22077 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:787 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3441 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3293 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17964 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46761 In article <4lg7al$ap4@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>, jstern@primenet.com says... > >Kevin P. Neal <kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu> wrote: >>Josh Stern (jstern@primenet.com) wrote: > >>: If the >>: business consumer cannot turn to PC Magazine, >>: Byte, or even the Wall Street Journal or <<<<snip>>>> > >>Unbiased journalism is a crock. It does not exist (as far as I can >>tell). > <<<<<snip>>>>> > To take an analogy, if I claim the >problem with your bicycle is the friction caused >by the back wheel brushing against the mud guard, >it's not particularly meaningful to come back and tell >me that all wheels have some friction. > Seems to me that the "bias" as it is used here referrs to whether the "media" has an agenda or not. If they have an agenda, any agenda, then I automatically invalidate 1/3 of what they have to say.