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Posted by Monty Solomon on April 14, 2008, 11:15 pm
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Trading Nude Photos Via Mobile Phone Now Part of Teen Dating,
Experts Say
Monday , April 14, 2008
AP
COLUMBUS, Ohio -
Forget about passing notes in study hall; some teens are now using
their cell phones to flirt and send nude pictures of themselves.
The instant text, picture and video messages have become part of some
teens' courtship behavior, police and school officials said.
The messages often spread quickly and sometimes find their way to
public Web sites.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351171,00.html
***** Moderator's Note *****
Monty gets pretty wide lattitude on what he sends to the digest, but I
don't like this kind of lurid sensationalism. However, it _is_ telecom
related, and I was always amazed at what kids talked about when I had
occasion to monitor trunks as a technician, so I concede that *some*
of it *might* be true.
IMNSHO, viewers will do well to apply a large grain of sodium to
anything coming out of Fox or any other TV network.
Bill Horne
Temporary Moderator
(Please put [Telecom] at the end of the subject line of your post, or
I may never see it. Thanks!)
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Posted by Geoffrey Welsh on April 16, 2008, 1:45 pm
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> ***** Moderator's Note *****
> IMNSHO, viewers will do well to apply a large grain of sodium to
> anything coming out of Fox or any other TV network.
... or any news outlet. Although this comment might be more appropriate in
Risks than Telecom, media outlets are increasingly cutting costs by
publishing stories from newswire services rather than their own reporting
network, rarely if ever confirming the story firsthand. Thus, stories which
are either sensational or which play into our fears are often accepted,
distributed, and published unchallenged. As soon as I saw this article and
your comment, I thought of the "toothing" (at least that's somewhat telecom
related) hoax, which IIRC was picked up by a number of mainstream media
outlets.
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Geoffrey Welsh <Geoffrey [dot] Welsh [at] bigfoot [dot] com>
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Posted by Garrett Wollman on April 17, 2008, 8:57 pm
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>[M]edia outlets are increasingly cutting costs by publishing stories
>from newswire services rather than their own reporting network
The recency illusion strikes again!
The Associated Press was founded some 160 years ago for precisely this
purpose. It's hardly a new thing.
(Cue the discussion of how "wire" services came to be so important in
the development of telecommunications infrastructure around the world
from about 1850 to about 1970.)
-GAWollman
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Garrett A. Wollman | The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are
wollman@csail.mit.edu| nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry
Opinions not those | grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape
of MIT or CSAIL. | our history. - S.J. Gould, Ten Thousand Acts of Kindness
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Posted by Geoffrey Welsh on April 18, 2008, 7:57 pm
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> The recency illusion strikes again!
>
> The Associated Press was founded some 160 years ago for precisely this
> purpose. It's hardly a new thing.
Point taken. But the recent issue is that stories no longer originate with
newswires(written, in theory, by traditional journalists working for a
reputable member organization and supervised by an editor), they're often
taken from non-traditional sources without the appropriate confirmation.
And, as if the internet hasn't already done much to level the playing field
between mainstream media and the kind of rigorously investigated content that
was previously only available in the form of discarded leaflets in the
gutter, I seem to notice more and more grammatical and spelling errors in my
local papers, leading me to suspect that mainstream media is cutting back on
editors to reduce costs further.
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Geoffrey Welsh <Geoffrey [dot] Welsh [at] bigfoot [dot] com>
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Posted by on April 19, 2008, 8:18 am
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> Point taken. But the recent issue is that stories no longer originate with
> newswires(written, in theory, by traditional journalists working for a
> reputable member organization and supervised by an editor), they're often
> taken from non-traditional sources without the appropriate confirmation.
> And, as if the internet hasn't already done much to level the playing field
> between mainstream media and the kind of rigorously investigated content
that
> was previously only available in the form of discarded leaflets in the
> gutter, I seem to notice more and more grammatical and spelling errors in
my
> local papers, leading me to suspect that mainstream media is cutting back
on
> editors to reduce costs further.
Unfortunately this is the trend.
One challenge is that people used to use transit to get to work and
would read the paper while riding; the trend has continued toward the
car where you can't read (at least not safely).
People only have so much time to read, and the Internet, cable TV, and
other modern sources and lifestyles cut into time previously spent on
print media or traditional network news. They thus cut corners which
discourages more readers.
Cable news outlets, IMHO, stink. They have a ton of airtime to fill
but nothing of substance to fill it with.
***** Moderator's Note *****
This thread has veered a bit too far away from telecom, so this will
be the last post.
Bill Horne
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