said by jester121:A good example of how to mislead people by a simple word choice, without actually lying:
"ISPs Won't Admit Participation In New RIAA Plan"
With that headline, Karl has immediately implied that the ISPs are doing something shady, but just won't come clean about it. Regular readers of the news here know that Karl gets off on sticking it to big ISPs, especially where piracy issues are concerned, so he's taken this news story and spun it in such a way that it accomplishes his goals. He also creates the impression that he's smarter than everyone else and knows what's really going down, so we should listen to him on everything else.
Why not a headline like "ISPs Decline to Comment on New RIAA Plan"? Because that's a bit too nebulous and doesn't allow for editorial bias to enter the discussion.
That's actually what happened -- Verizon said "no," and the rest of the ISPs says "No Comment".
In other news, "Karl Bode Won't Admit Cheating on Taxes".
here has an underlying editorial agenda. It is an editorial page and not an AP newswire.
- but only his perception of it as seen thru his own anti-corporate filter.
