IP: MSNBC doctors anti-MS WSJ story

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:48:17 -0700
> From: "Robert J. Berger" <rberger () ultradevices com>
> To: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
> Subject: MSNBC doctors anti-MS WSJ story
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19771.html
>
> MSNBC doctors anti-MS WSJ story
> By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
> Posted: 18/06/2001 at 11:51 GMT
>
> MSNBC has been caught doctoring copy originating from the Wall Street
> Journal to make it more favourable to the news channel's co-owner
> Microsoft. The changes introduced by MSNBC also had the effect of
> removing references to Microsoft competitors.
>
> Amongst many fairly harmless edits, designed to improve readability,
> were some more ominous changes.
>
> The original WSJ report gave a harsh analysis of Microsoft' offensive
> against open source software and the GNU General Public License,
> initiated six weeks ago by Craig Mundie. The WSJ cited Microsoft's own
> dependence on open source software, and cited lawyers who were
> critical of its interpretation of the General Public License.
>
> "Microsoft said that since last summer, Hotmail has been running on
> both Windows 2000 and the Solaris operating system from Sun
> Microsystems Inc.," noted the original copy from the WSJ.
>
> MSNBC amended this to:-
>
> "Microsoft said Hotmail has been running on Windows since last
> summer."
>
> By Friday, the original version of the story that appeared in the WSJ
> had been restored to MSNBC.
> <snip>
>
> Original WSJ Story:
> Microsoft Uses Open-Source Code Despite Denying Use of Such Software
> By LEE GOMES
> http://public.wsj.com/news/hmc/sb992819157437237260.htm
>
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