____/ Linonut on Wednesday 12 March 2008 13:34 : \____
> http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/03/contra-durusau-part-1.html
>
> From the start Patrick has remained publicly silent on the topic of
> OOXML. No blog posts, no press, nothing. If you asked, he would say
> that this was his policy. Privately, you would get an earful (all
> negative), but as befits the unbiased chair of the committee
> which is responsible for the technical recommendation for the US NB,
> he kept his personal opinions out of the public arena.
>
> This public orientation changed recently. As best I can figure it, on
> returning from a conference in Seattle in late January, Patrick was a
> changed man. Patrick is now an enthusiastic OOXML supporter and is
> eager to inform the world of his delight in OOXML at every
> opportunity. He posts his "open letters" on his web site, which are
> linked to, often within minutes, by the various Microsoft bloggers,
> and then sent around by Microsoft employees to the press and the
> various JTC1 NB's.
>
> . . .
>
> Of course, Microsoft will not be so careful to distinguish Patrick's
> personal opinions from his professional affiliations. So a post from
> Patrick's personal web site is retold on a Microsoft blog as "The ODF
> Editor says....", and then the next day is sent in an email to NB's
> with a larger set of "endorsements": . . .
>
> http://thirdworldtraveler.com/Herman%20/Manufac_Consent_Prop_Model.html
>
> Manufacturing Consent
> A Propaganda Model
>
> In countries where the levers of power are in the hands of a state
> bureaucracy, the monopolistic control over the media, often
> supplemented by official censorship, makes it clear that the media
> serve the ends of a dominant elite. It is much more difficult to see
> a propaganda system at work where the media are private and formal
> censorship is absent. This is especially true where the media
> actively compete, periodically attack and expose corporate and
> governmental malfeasance, and aggressively portray themselves as
> spokesmen for free speech and the general community interest. What is
> not evident (and remains undiscussed in the media) is the limited
> nature of such critiques, as well as the huge inequality in command
> of resources, and its effect both on access to a private media system
> and on its behavior and performance.
Good find (that latter one), which I will use later to sum this up. ;-)
One sentence comes to mind:
"The emperor has no clothes"
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