■ In the trenches
Posted on Mar 01, 2002 | Permalink
Weekly news round-up - a regular feature spotlighting interesting stories from the week: ****
Csikszentmihalyi is digressing from the topic at hand, which is his explanation of why he has built a satellite-linked, Net-operated robot that he intends to send into a combat zone ASAP. Since the invasion of Grenada, he notes, the U.S. Armed Forces have limited journalists’ access to areas where fighting is taking place, and he finds this troubling, to say the least.
The House’s approval of campaign finance reform earlier this month has drawn vast coverage. But the broadcast networks somehow failed to mention that high-powered television lobbyists killed an amendment that would have provided cheaper rates for candidate advertising.
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David Frum, the former Canadian journalist and speechwriter for U.S. President George W. Bush, has left the White House — but not, he said Monday, because of an imbroglio surrounding his authorship of the phrase “axis of evil.”
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Which brings us back to the lawsuit. Why did Netscape fail? Because it was managed with this kind of incompetence. The last major revision of Netscape Communicator, version 6.0, which was introduced in April 2000, was a disaster.