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Re: OT: New Apple TV rumours

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In article <120220141600095481%michelle@michelle.org>, Michelle Steiner
<michelle@michelle.org> wrote:

> > > Notice that I wrote "the article"?  Unlike you, I took the time and
> > > effort to read the article, so I could write knowledgeably about it. 
> > > It's not my fault that you are to lazy to do the same.
> > 
> > i'm going by what you wrote. 
> 
> I wrote "the article", you were going by what JF wrote, and that I
> quoted; you didn't bother reading the article.

nope. i was going by what *you* wrote.

*you* said you wondered how accurate it could be based on the photo
they included. those are *your* words, which you conveniently snipped.

> > using a stock photo is common. they're journalists, not detectives.
> > using a photo of an older model doesn't change the story. they needed a
> > photo of an apple tv and they used one. maybe they didn't have a photo
> > of a recent model, so they used what they could find. 
> 
> If they didn't have a photo of the current model, they're idiots. 

are they supposed to maintain a library of every single product every
company has ever released, all accurately indexed, just to satisfy a
few people who scrutinize every pixel looking for mistakes?

> Furthermore, they apparently found out that they didn't have the
> current model because they changed the photo to the current model, and
> even made sure in the caption to say that it's the current model.

so what? it doesn't change the story. what matters is what they said
apple might be doing. 

maybe that's the only image they could get when they published the
article and was waiting on another image to be updated. 

either way, it's not a big deal. 

> > > > and you try to introduce doubt by saying they used a stock photo of
> > > > an older model, something which is very common in journalism.
> > > 
> > > As a trained investigator, I doubt anything that contains a blatant
> > > error. 
> > 
> > first of all, it's not a blatant error, but if you feel that way, you
> > should stop reading all journalism because using stock photos is *very*
> > common.
> 
> It's not that they used a stock photo; it's that they used an incorrect
> stock photo.  Even you should be able to understand that distinction.

nobody but you cares. if you think their target readership cares, then
you're very mistaken. 

and unlike you, i look at the content of the article, not irrelevant
details that don't actually matter. 

> > furthermore, most people reading it won't know the difference anyway.
> > spending time getting a photo of the exact model would be a waste of
> > their time.
> 
> Yet they took the time to change the photo to the correct model, and to
> edit the caption to make sure they said it's the current model.

so what? the photo doesn't change the contents of the story because the
story is not about the photo.

it's about what apple might or might not do. the photo is just an extra
and does not change anything material about the story. you're making it
into something far more than it is. 

now, if they had a photo of a completely different product instead of
an apple tv, such as an ipod, *then* it would be a problem. but they
didn't.

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OT: New Apple TV rumours JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-02-12 14:18 -0500
  Re: OT: New Apple TV rumours Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-02-12 12:39 -0700
    Re: OT: New Apple TV rumours nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-12 15:03 -0500
      Re: OT: New Apple TV rumours Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-02-12 13:42 -0700
        Re: OT: New Apple TV rumours JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-02-12 16:24 -0500
          Re: OT: New Apple TV rumours Ted Lee <tmplee@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 15:32 -0600
          Re: OT: New Apple TV rumours Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-12 21:51 +0000
          Re: OT: New Apple TV rumours Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-02-12 15:22 -0700
          Re: OT: New Apple TV rumours Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-02-12 17:31 -0500
            Re: OT: New Apple TV rumours Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-02-12 15:47 -0700
          Re: OT: New Apple TV rumours "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2014-02-13 04:39 +0000
          Re: OT: New Apple TV rumours Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2014-02-14 12:08 -0800
        Re: OT: New Apple TV rumours nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-12 16:40 -0500
          Re: OT: New Apple TV rumours Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-02-12 15:28 -0700
            Re: OT: New Apple TV rumours nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-12 17:48 -0500
              Re: OT: New Apple TV rumours Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-02-12 16:00 -0700
                Re: OT: New Apple TV rumours nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-12 18:29 -0500
                Re: OT: New Apple TV rumours Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-02-12 16:49 -0700
                Re: OT: New Apple TV rumours nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-12 18:56 -0500
                Re: OT: New Apple TV rumours Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-02-12 17:08 -0700
                Re: OT: New Apple TV rumours JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-02-12 23:18 -0500
                Re: OT: New Apple TV rumours Happynet Steering Society <b@o.ru> - 2014-02-13 17:04 -0500
                Re: OT: New Apple TV rumours nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-13 17:38 -0500
                Re: OT: New Apple TV rumours nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-13 17:38 -0500
            Re: OT: New Apple TV rumours John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2014-02-12 22:48 -0800
            Re: OT: New Apple TV rumours Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-02-13 17:09 -0500
    Re: OT: New Apple TV rumours Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-02-12 17:20 -0500
      Re: OT: New Apple TV rumours Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-02-12 15:46 -0700
    Re: OT: New Apple TV rumours Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-13 15:27 +0000

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