From: "geeman@best.com" <geeman@best.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 07:33:26 +0800
To: "'cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: FW: Bashing "Wired"
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From: 	Timothy C. May[SMTP:tcmay@got.net]
Sent: 	Thursday, June 20, 1996 11:19 PM
To: 	cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: 	Bashing "Wired"

..... elided...

And notice that increasingly the "journalists" are the quoted thinkers and
strategists in important areas? Someone majors in English, starts writing
for "Netizen" or "HotWired," and the next thing you know they're debating
crypto policy with Conrad Burns and Dorothy Denning. We're in an age where
the medium truly is the message

thanks for the deconstruction on 'WiReD' - --- your last comment reminds me of Cliff Stoll's position that the Web fosters what he calls 'cacocracy' --- a community of yakking posturers with nothing to say.

I recommend his "Silicon Snake Oil" to all.
Cheers.