<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I’ll leave the journalism discussion to the network folks. But I thought it was worth drawing attention to Ingrid’s entire series for <i class="">The Atlantic</i>, of which this article is only one part. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In particular I’d recommend her piece on Point Arena, submarine cable tapping and the digital divide:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/where-the-cloud-rises-from-the-sea/415236/" class="">http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/where-the-cloud-rises-from-the-sea/415236/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As well as her requisite “Utah” piece, which has some new (to me) details on David Evans and the U of U, which will be particularly relevant to this list:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/a-visit-to-the-nsas-data-center-in-utah/416691/" class="">http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/a-visit-to-the-nsas-data-center-in-utah/416691/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The entire series is here:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/author/ingrid-burrington/" class="">http://www.theatlantic.com/author/ingrid-burrington/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards to all,</div><div class="">Andrew</div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 11, 2016, at 1:31 PM, Leo Vegoda <<a href="mailto:leo@vegoda.org" class="">leo@vegoda.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 12:55:09PM -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:<br class=""><br class="">[...]<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Look, it doesn’t really matter. Journalists are nearly always spreading some misinformation, <br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Sometimes they are and sometimes they aren't. They are just people<br class="">and exist on a continuum that runs from the superb to the execrable.<br class="">As long as we are able to apply critical reading faculties we should<br class="">all be fine. <br class=""><br class="">Regards,<br class=""><br class="">Leo<br class="">_______<br class="">internet-history mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:internet-history@postel.org" class="">internet-history@postel.org</a><br class="">http://mailman.postel.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history<br class="">Contact list-owner@postel.org for assistance.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>