[ih] FYI - Gordon Crovitz/WSJ on "Who Really Invented the Internet?"

[Guy Almes]

Joly,
   ;-)
   The trouble, of course, is that we live in a world of "multiple 
truths".  Crovitz can be the laughing stock of the Internet world and 
still influence many WSJ readers to reinforce their low opinion of both 
science and of government-funded research.
	-- Guy

On 7/23/12 3:44 PM, Joly MacFie wrote:
> My sympathy is with Crovitz. He's a laughing stock on the Interwebs.
> He's lucky he didn't come up with anything as meme-able as "a series of
> tubes". As it is "to crovitz" may well become shorthand for Republican
> partisan mangling revisionism. And more people may make the connection
> that the WSJ has the same owner as Fox News.
>
> j
>
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick at ianai.net
> <mailto:patrick at ianai.net>> wrote:
>
>     ARS did a good response as well:
>
>
>     <http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/wsj-mangles-history-to-argue-government-didnt-launch-the-internet/>
>
>     Sad that the WJS prints this drivel.  Sadder that people believe &
>     defend it. :(
>
>     --
>     TTFN,
>     patrick
>
>
>
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