[SIGCIS-Members] Why is HuffPost publishing another "invention of email" series?

[Dave Walden]

Not so significant to the Al Gore story as he actually did have 
significant impact on the evolution of the Internet, unless your 
point is the nonsense the journalists published ridiculing Al Gore 
(who only deserved a little bit of laughter, not massive ridicule, 
for his overstatement):
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore_and_information_technology


At 10:57 AM 9/3/2014, Andrew Russell wrote:
>At the risk of (or in hopes of) provoking Tom Haigh and others, I 
>thought I would share the following:
>
>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140901/07280928386/huffpo-publishes-bizarre-misleading-factually-incorrect-multi-part-series-pretending-guy-invented-email-even-though-he-didnt.shtml
>
>I'm sure many of you noticed the recent round of HuffPo stories, 
>promoting the claims of the guy who claimed to invent email in 
>1978.  Similar to the "Al Gore invented the Internet" story from 
>several years ago, this particular "invention of email" story seems 
>to be more compelling through a media studies lens (i.e., why do 
>media outlets keep publishing nonsense?), and not at all a case of 
>uncertainty or debate amongst serious historians or networking engineers.
>
>Andy
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