* Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
> ____/ Linonut on Tuesday 19 February 2008 13:01 : \____
>
> What's with Tim's snipping? What is s/he trying to hide? It's not the first
> time that I see this. Also mind:
>
> "It also was strange to see just how many resources are aligned
> against me when I write a story about Microsoft."
>
> http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/03/enough_about_me.html
>
> The Troll also missed the main point, which is the fast that Microsoft
> eavesdrops on people and then posts snitches to create smear campaigns. I have
> links to show this too.
>
> My message was posted in response to that attack on "7". Nessunu, HPT,
> GreyCloud and other examples come to mind, so there might be something at work
> behind the scenes.
Oh, I quite agree there are plenty of attack-goobers on your ass,
whether on their own initiative or Microsoft's. But the best way (and
often very difficult way) to avoid a smear is to be squeaky clean.
An additional problems is that this stuff is a bit diffuse, and, to an
outsider (e.g. a newsgroup lurker), you may appear to be paranoid.
Your link above is interesting:
I've been a journalist for more than 20 years and always assumed that
the people I interview do as much homework on me as I do on them. So
the existence of a document like this didn't surprise me. But that
still didn't make it any easier to read lines like, "It takes him a
bit to get his point across so try to be patient." I know my
long-windedness drives my wife nuts occasionally. I didn't know it
had become an issue for Microsoft's pr machine too.
. . .
But it seemed clear from the memo that there were close to a dozen
other people involved. Some transcribed the interviews I conducted;
others kept notes on my every utterance for clues about what
questions I might ask next and ultimately what my story would say;
others briefed executives with questions I had asked and suggested
good answers. Indeed, if you read the memo closely it's clear that my
experience with Microsoft on this story was their end game. For
something like six months prior they had been plotting to get Wired
to write a story about Channel 9 and had dispatched three executives
to meet with editors at the magazine in hopes of setting their hook.
Should I be flattered that they worked so hard, or should I be
embarrassed at being co-opted by their spin machine? I'd like to
think I would have written the same story no matter what. But now,
through the miracle of transparency, you, the reader, get to decide
that too.
Taken from the Microsoft Memo:
Sanjay -- thank you again for taking the time today to talk to Fred
at Wired and help move him along on his Microsoft transparency and
the Evangelism Network.
Microsoft -- Stranger than Fiction
I have to say that nothing I hear about Microsoft would surprise me at
this point, except perhaps a story on them growing developers in test
tubes:
http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_8302312
--
The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily
comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli
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