Re: fascinating deceptive writing in news [was: Great NPR foo]

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:56:28 +0300, Gadi Evron said:
> > Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> > > "A boy comes home from school and logs on to the computer. He types in a search
> > > for, say, 'sex pictures'. Thousands of sites appear and he starts exploring. ..."
> > >
> > > Horses don't enter into it until later.
> > I never claimed it's the first thing he does. I was counting.
>
> What you said:
>
> "showing us how our boy can get home from school and with simple searches on
> the net for say, horse-back riding can end up in a porn site showing something
> else entirely.

I don't see I claimed it is the first thing he does, but in fact, it is.

> Interesting that the article says "sex pictures", but your version says
> "horseback riding".  I'd call that at least slightly deceptive. ;)

No duh. I think on balance, his long paragraph on the subject or my two 
hyperbole words, even themselves out.
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