Jim,
/soapbox on/
Who, What, Where, When, How and Why got lost in the ratings race. Many (not all, thank God) journalists have devolved into talking heads, entertainers, and inflamers.
IMO, the goals of any good journalist are to: Inform and make you think. Simple, yet so hard...
/soapbox off/
My opinions, not my employers.
Pat Shugart
>>> Jim McCoy <[log in to unmask]> 09/06/01 03:18PM >>>
What ever happened to Who, What, Where, When, How and Why?
I guess it's no wonder you can't believe what is reported by the media most
of the time.
jm
----- Original Message -----
From: Cynthia Fowler <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] The demise of MPE?
From having some exposure to journalism in my formal education processes, I
seem to remember that the goal of a journalist is to evoke emotion and to
whet the appetite of others by use of partial information. Since the
original statement that is generating all this traffice was made by someone
at Information Week, my suggestion is to consider the source. My guess is
that "Jim" was misquoted, a frequent tactic of journalists. Liz Thayer is
correct to question the context of Jim's statement, IMO.
FWIW,
Cynthia Bridges-Fowler
IMC Salt, Inc., a division of IMC Global
[log in to unmask] http://www.imcsalt.com
>>> Mark Wonsil <[log in to unmask]> 09/06/01 01:53PM >>>
Is it just me, or do you feel someone is trying to goat you into saying
something really emotional? It's one thing to report the reaction to
current events, but it is quite another to try to create a reaction. This
is just a little too provocative for my taste...
Mark 'Watching what I'm saying' Wonsil
> -----Original Message-----
> Hi All: during a conference call yesterday, Jim McDonnell at
> HP said that the HP
> 3000 is well-leveraged, and the continuing HP strategy will
> be to migrate
> customers to other systems.
>
> Add that attitude to the hords of OVMS and NonStop customers
> who will moving
> into your house about Spring, and I get the feeling that
> it'll be your legacy
> system that's got to go first.
>
> I'm hoping somebody will call me and talk with me about the
> real feelings among
> the HP 3000 camp.
> Good luck to you all.
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