[Info-vax] Oracle, HP should graduate from kindergarten, user says

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 11/7/2011 5:06 AM, Paul Sture wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:48:50 +1030, Jeremy Begg wrote:
>
>> Paul Sture wrote:
>>> On Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:52:16 -0700, Keith Cayemberg wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Oracle, HP should graduate from kindergarten, user says
>>>> http://preview.tinyurl.com/5vma84f
>>>
>>>
>>> There was an article on 5-Oct-2011 about the same user's calls on HP
>>> and Oracle to settle their differences.  Is it recycled news?
>>>
>>> "IT shops call on HP and Oracle to kiss and make up"
>>> http://preview.tinyurl.com/6docx5r
>>>
>> Looks recycled to me.
>>
>> I wouldn't be too quick to critise the user's remarks.  In my personal
>> experience there's a huge difference between what you say to a
>> journalist and what gets reported!
>>
>
> It could also be a journalist calling the guy as a follow up to the
> original article.  I agree that there's a huge difference between what
> you say and what gets reported.
>

Remember that a journalist's job to get the reader's attention and 
thereby sell newspapers (or magazines).  He must also trim the story to 
fit the available space.  Lastly, he must use short and simple words.

If you think that something is lost in the process, you are probably right!

If you pay attention to your newspaper, you may find some amazing 
bloopers!  I recall a story which mentioned a "decapitated head".
It should have read "a severed head".  The decapitated body was found 
fifty feet away.

The reporter and/or the "rewrite man" probably flunked English in high 
school!