Trading Nude Photos Via Mobile Phone Now Part of Teen Dating, Experts Say [Telecom]
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Posted by Monty Solomon on April 14, 2008, 11:15 pm
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Trading Nude Photos Via Mobile Phone Now Part of Teen Dating, Experts Say Monday , April 14, 2008 AP COLUMBUS, Ohio - Forget about passing notes in study hall; some teens are now using their cell phones to flirt and send nude pictures of themselves. The instant text, picture and video messages have become part of some teens' courtship behavior, police and school officials said. The messages often spread quickly and sometimes find their way to public Web sites. ... http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351171,00.html ***** Moderator's Note ***** Monty gets pretty wide lattitude on what he sends to the digest, but I don't like this kind of lurid sensationalism. However, it _is_ telecom related, and I was always amazed at what kids talked about when I had occasion to monitor trunks as a technician, so I concede that *some* of it *might* be true. IMNSHO, viewers will do well to apply a large grain of sodium to anything coming out of Fox or any other TV network. Bill Horne Temporary Moderator (Please put [Telecom] at the end of the subject line of your post, or I may never see it. Thanks!) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Geoffrey Welsh on April 16, 2008, 1:45 pm
Please log in for more thread options  Risks than Telecom, media outlets are increasingly cutting costs by publishing stories from newswire services rather than their own reporting network, rarely if ever confirming the story firsthand. Thus, stories which are either sensational or which play into our fears are often accepted, distributed, and published unchallenged. As soon as I saw this article and your comment, I thought of the "toothing" (at least that's somewhat telecom related) hoax, which IIRC was picked up by a number of mainstream media outlets. -- Geoffrey Welsh <Geoffrey [dot] Welsh [at] bigfoot [dot] com> . | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Garrett Wollman on April 17, 2008, 8:57 pm
Please log in for more thread options The recency illusion strikes again! The Associated Press was founded some 160 years ago for precisely this purpose. It's hardly a new thing. (Cue the discussion of how "wire" services came to be so important in the development of telecommunications infrastructure around the world from about 1850 to about 1970.) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are wollman@csail.mit.edu| nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry Opinions not those | grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape of MIT or CSAIL. | our history. - S.J. Gould, Ten Thousand Acts of Kindness | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Geoffrey Welsh on April 18, 2008, 7:57 pm
Please log in for more thread options Garrett Wollman wrote:Point taken. But the recent issue is that stories no longer originate with newswires(written, in theory, by traditional journalists working for a reputable member organization and supervised by an editor), they're often taken from non-traditional sources without the appropriate confirmation. And, as if the internet hasn't already done much to level the playing field between mainstream media and the kind of rigorously investigated content that was previously only available in the form of discarded leaflets in the gutter, I seem to notice more and more grammatical and spelling errors in my local papers, leading me to suspect that mainstream media is cutting back on editors to reduce costs further. -- Geoffrey Welsh <Geoffrey [dot] Welsh [at] bigfoot [dot] com> . | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by on April 19, 2008, 8:18 am
Please log in for more thread options that my on Unfortunately this is the trend. One challenge is that people used to use transit to get to work and would read the paper while riding; the trend has continued toward the car where you can't read (at least not safely). People only have so much time to read, and the Internet, cable TV, and other modern sources and lifestyles cut into time previously spent on print media or traditional network news. They thus cut corners which discourages more readers. Cable news outlets, IMHO, stink. They have a ton of airtime to fill but nothing of substance to fill it with. ***** Moderator's Note ***** This thread has veered a bit too far away from telecom, so this will be the last post. Bill Horne Temporary Moderator (Please put [Telecom] at the end of the subject line of your post, or I may never see it. Thanks!) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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> IMNSHO, viewers will do well to apply a large grain of sodium to
> anything coming out of Fox or any other TV network.