WSJ Still Hasn't Corrected Its Bogus Internet Revisionist Story, As Vint Cerf & Xerox Both Claim The Story Is Wrong
from the how-do-you-correct-a-story-that's-almost-entirely-wrong? dept
We recently discussed a Wall Street Journal opinion piece by its former publishers, L. Gordon Crovitz, in which he made some fantastically false claims about the origins of the internet. What was noteworthy was that while the WSJ got the story so totally wrong, lots of others, including bloggers, leapt into the fray to explain why Crovitz was wrong. Almost everyone he sourced or credited to support his argument that the internet was invented entirely privately at Xerox PARC and when Vint Cerf helped create TCP/IP, has spoken out to say he's wrong. And that list includes both Vint Cerf, himself, and Xerox. Other sources, including Robert Taylor (who was there when the internet was invented) and Michael Hiltzik, have rejected Crovitz's spinning of their own stories.Basically, anyone and everyone is telling the WSJ that it got this story totally and completely wrong. You might think the WSJ would start making some corrections. Instead, it's made one single correction:
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Filed Under: arpanet, corrections, errors, history, internet, l gordon crovitz, parc, vint cerf
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I see...
What else is new?
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Just remember Rupert's listening.
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It's right there in the name
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Why won't the WSJ step up and issue a real correction on all of the errors?
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WSJ is a bad publication
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Ah well. Stupidity is its own cure. Think of it as evolution in action.
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Checking out Blogs
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Sad and funny
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Perhaps your depth and breadth of reading material needs expansion.
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Opinion column vs. news story
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Traditionally, yeah, up until about the 1970s. Then the news organizations' owners started to realize how they could make more money by pandering to viewers instead of informing them. It got a lot worse in the 90s, but it's been going on for a long time.
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Congress, unable to anticipate the enormous capacity television would have to deliver consumers to advertisers, failed to include in its deal the one requirement that would have changed our national discourse immeasurably for the better – Congress forgot to add that under no circumstances could there be paid advertising during informational broadcasting. They forgot to say the taxpayers will give you the airwaves for free and for 23 hours a day, you should make a profit, but for one hour a night, you work for us.
And now those network newscasts, anchored through history by honest-to-God newsmen with names like Murrow and Reasoner and Huntley and Brinkley and Buckley and Cronkite and Rather and Russert…now, they have to compete with the likes of me, a cable anchor who’s in the exact same business as the producers of “Jersey Shore.””
— Will McAvoy
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News in America????
As most well informed people know, the Kennedy administration appointed JCR Licklider, a real technical type who wisely directed funds to the creators of the Internet, Cerf, Kahn, Postel, Baran, etc., etc., et al. (sorry to not recall all their names...).
As they Kennedy administration also established NASA and the moon project, out of which came developments and discoveries which paved the way, together with the Internet, for the creation (with a wee bit of help from Berners-Lee and company) of the World Wide Web.
Recommended reading for those who truly wish to understand reality, not the matrix, we now exist in:
Battling Wall Street: The Kennedy presidency, by Donald Gibson
Thy Will Be Done, by Gerard Colby with Charlotte Dennett
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http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/24/untruths-at-the-origins-of-the-internet/
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Is Everyone Blind?
Crovitz' column is an OPINION piece, so atated, and on the Opinion page. Who cares WHAT this clown says? IT"S HIS OPINION! Nowhere does that page state that WSJ backs it or has researched it. Pay attention, people. Sheesh!
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In fact, I wouldn't put it past the Editor to have published that piece for exactly the result he got, lots of ink and pixels for an organ that is slowly fading into the editorial sunset like most other dead-tree outlets.
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And Fox News is entertainment, it is not news.
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As for the First Amendment, the only possible response is, what the fuck are you talking about?
You also don't know what you're talking about re: the WSJ. It's actually doing fine. Pretty much everything you just wrote is addled and insensible.
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Mea Culpa
You are, as far as I can determine, exactly correct, if a little harsh. With one notable exception, all of the papers I have been able to research require the same standard of accuracy in their opinion pages as they do in their op-ed or news pages. My apologies to you and the other readers. I was apparently shooting from the hip, and not checking MY facts.
Which leads to the next question: WHY was this "opinion" allowed to be published when it was so extensively and obviously wrong? Was it just for the controversy or the attantion? I'd like to know.
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but but but....
WSJ is the sole authority and does not need to retract anything unless another credible REAL journalist presents a different story.
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WSJs screw up
Because its become another lamestream media just like Pravda on the Potomic (OOPS the Washington Post. At least so far the WSJ hasn't started running batboy and Elvis sightings;but a lot of their material has been erroneous. That is why I subscribe to the "Financial Times" rather than the WSJ.
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Public and Private research lead to the Internet
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History People
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