Right after posting about the Kathy Sierra case yesterday, Dave Weinberger blogs about talking to CNN about... you guessed it... "The Dark Side of the Net." It's a good entry, partly for the case study of dealing with tv media, and also for Weinberger's fine intentions:
I agreed to the interview because I wanted to try to counter the fear-mongering story I'm pretty sure CNN wants to produce about the Web.
I haven't seen the show, because it hasn't been broadcast yet. But it could be another classic fearsome web story.
I appreciate Weinberger's efforts on this score, and applaud the honestly of his account. We need more of that, and less of what he describes:
I thought the CNN story was seizing on one case — a nasty, disturbing case without doubt — and using it to generalize without further evidence or research, because the media likes conflict and likes to raise fears about the Net.
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