Re: BBC "evil malice Linux zealot" article

On Friday 06 Feb 2004 11:45, Andrew A. Adams wrote:
> > Chris wrote:
> > > But I expect the BBC are still reeling from the response their article
> > > got when slashdot found out about it:
> > >
> > > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/05/0818229&mode=thread
> >
> > Despite this they still haven't issued a retraction. I put in a
> > complaint as did quite a few members of the local lug.
>
> It took a Public Enquiry and a critical report from a senior judge before
> the BBC would apologise over Andrew Gilligan's "sexing up" (of a pretty
> sexy story in the first place, the fool). Why would you expect them to
> apologise because a bunch of geeks get their knickers in a twist over poor
> science and technology reporting. 

The BBC's habitually bad S&T reporting aside, there are other ways we proles 
can kick up a fuss that are more productive than trolling on slashdot. Some 
people in the FSF Europe are considering writing up a letter to Ofcom. 
Perhaps it wouldn't be such a bad idea for groups like the FSFE, the AFFS and 
the UKCDR to write a formal letter, or organise a barrage of letters, 
complaining about the general inadequacy of almost all of the Beeb's 
reporting on FS/OSS issues, putting emphasis on misleading or innacurate 
reporting rather than on the BBC's implied position?

Tom