http://kierenmccarthy.co.uk/2005/09/28/what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-the-us-press/ An infuriatingly infrequently updated reflection on the Internet, the US, and life in general Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:16:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://kierenmccarthy.co.uk/2005/09/28/what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-the-us-press/comment-page-1/#comment-1839 A brief history of American Internet madness at kierenmccarthy.co.uk Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:39:46 +0000 http://kierenmccarthy.co.uk/?p=62#comment-1839 [...] The result was that the World Summit on the Information Society became a one-issue process. In October at a pre-Summit meeting in Geneva, the issue of US control became a heated topic of debate. Particularly bizarre from my perspective as a journalist in the room were the US press reports about what was happening and what the issues were. None of the journalists that wrote the reports were actually present at the meeting, with the result that reports bore almost no relation to the reality of the situation. [...] [...] The result was that the World Summit on the Information Society became a one-issue process. In October at a pre-Summit meeting in Geneva, the issue of US control became a heated topic of debate. Particularly bizarre from my perspective as a journalist in the room were the US press reports about what was happening and what the issues were. None of the journalists that wrote the reports were actually present at the meeting, with the result that reports bore almost no relation to the reality of the situation. [...]

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