Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [steering-discuss] Fwd: Thanks for the interview today

On 10 Jun 2011, at 12:22, Andrea Pescetti wrote:

> Italo Vignoli wrote:
> > http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2077963/libreoffice-ready-commercial-distribution-months-document-foundation
> > http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2077979/document-foundation-promises-enterprise-ready-libreoffice-august
>
> It's great to see that the LibreOffice download size will be 30
> MBytes... if only that was true! It must be an invariant that, however
> accurate the information provided to them, journalists always manage to
> get something wrong.

It's not just journalists. All human communications have that effect, hence the game "Chinese 
Whispers"[1]. That's why when I give a conference keynote I try to also publish my thoughts before 
or at the same time, so there can be no doubt what I think. It's also why reports of what others 
said or think should be treated as suspect (a concept described in English as "Hearsay"[2]) until 
there's a supporting source provided.

The lesson I have learned is that I should treat each error in an article where I am the source as 
my own failure to present the information in a way that was effective for the journalist.  On the 
other hand, as a journalist I always appreciate rapid, polite, factual and constructive corrections 
to my articles and apply them as soon as I can.

S.




[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearsay
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