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News.com.au - Terrorists in SL

Started by Lowell Cremorne · 11 months ago

Mainstream media reporting of Second Life in Australia has a mixed track record, and one of the biggest low points would have to be in this article on the news.com.au website published today. It can also be found on The Australian website.
The article starts off regurgitating the (never confir ... Continue reading »

8 comments

  • Sean FitzGerald (aka Sean McDu

    1 year ago

    Gobsmacked! Is there some "Worst Reporting on Second Life" award going at the moment?
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  • TateruNino

    1 year ago

    If there is, that would win it. It's a complete pile of Shirky.
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  • JD Maloney

    1 year ago

    And they say all the amateurs are running blogs and youtube! Here is a link to one of the best reports on the ABC saga...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Jd5RxGDIc
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  • Josh Rogan

    1 year ago

    Yep, the Oz story (which also appeared in print) was a real shocker - a total waste of space.

    By the way, that ABC "griefing" incident that was later found out to be a server error ... everyone is tut tutting the press for getting it wrong. But it was the ABC that put out a press release saying the island had been attacked by griefers.

    You can see the press release here (even thought it says "news story", it's from the ABC media unit):
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/05/22/1...
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  • Rails

    1 year ago

    Having read the article by that imbicile reporter, one can only surmise that she is living in her own fantasy world.

    Yes there are terrorists in SL, they are called griefers. Yes they are a pain, but they do not kill people in the real sense of the word.

    This imbicile reporter needs to get out in the real world and experience real world events, such as having a loaded rifle pointed in your direction. Now that's scary.
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  • Apollo Case

    1 year ago

    They have another version of the story where the writer admits later the problem at the ABC was a server error. The link on the Australian is: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,2...

    Here's what the journo says at the start of that article:

    "THE bomb hit the ABC's headquarters, destroying everything except one digital transmission tower. The force of the blast left Aunty's site a cratered mess."

    Then she later admits:

    "The ABC has discovered that its bomb was a computer server error that it was able to fix within a couple of hours."

    Although even here she is still calling it a bomb.

    At the end of the article it says:

    Natalie O'Brien is a senior writer on The Australian.

    HMMMMM.
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  • skribe Forti

    1 year ago

    If she's a senior writer maybe they should pension her off. She's obviously past her prime.
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  • Hal Cazalet

    1 year ago

    Unfortunately the inaccuracies have continued into the UK with this completely pointless post trying to sensationally link Islamic Jihads with SL.

    http://www.brandrepublic.com/Blogs/showpost/fb1...

    Oh dear....
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