Washington Post retracts email story & Ombudsman column
Hello everyone, Good news from the email battle. The Washington Post's Ombudsman has posted a lengthy and detailed retraction of his previous column. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/omblog/post/origins-of-e-mail-my-mea-cul pa/2012/03/01/gIQAiOD5kR_blog.html This will also make my life easier, as I no longer have to try to present the actual history of email, correct the Post's errors in the original story and Ombusman blog, and debunk Ayyadurai all in one article. We can shift the focus to the real history, which is ultimately more productive. Best wishes, Tom
Tom, That is indeed a terrific retraction by Pexton. You did a great job of following this story and persisting on determining, and writing about the truth. Congratulations on (and thanks for) the great work! I look forward to your piece on the origins of email -Ramesh Subramanian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ramesh Subramanian, Ph.D. Gabriel Ferrucci Professor of Information Systems Quinnipiac University 275 Mount Carmel Avenue Hamden, CT 06518. Email: rameshs@quinnipiac.edu Web: http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1288.xml?Person=23345&type=5 & Visiting Fellow, Information Society Project Yale Law School 127 Wall Street New Haven, CT 06511. Email: ramesh.subramanian@yale.edu Web: http://www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/9841.htm On 3/1/2012 5:46 PM, Thomas Haigh wrote:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/omblog/post/origins-of-e-mail-my-mea-cul pa/2012/03/01/gIQAiOD5kR_blog.html
Dear Tom, congratulations! congratulations to the SIGCIS community, showing its sense of community. Not having specific details to contribute from accross the ocean, I have enjoyed seeing you stage a little battle and win. Gerard Alberts Amsterdam ________________________________________ Van: members-bounces@sigcis.org [members-bounces@sigcis.org] namens Thomas Haigh [thaigh@computer.org] Verzonden: donderdag 1 maart 2012 23:46 Aan: members@sigcis.org Onderwerp: [SIGCIS-Members] Washington Post retracts email story & Ombudsman column Hello everyone, Good news from the email battle. The Washington Post's Ombudsman has posted a lengthy and detailed retraction of his previous column. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/omblog/post/origins-of-e-mail-my-mea-cul pa/2012/03/01/gIQAiOD5kR_blog.html This will also make my life easier, as I no longer have to try to present the actual history of email, correct the Post's errors in the original story and Ombusman blog, and debunk Ayyadurai all in one article. We can shift the focus to the real history, which is ultimately more productive. Best wishes, Tom _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members@sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/ and you can change your subscription options at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members
Excellent news indeed, and Tom's point about the opportunity to do some *positive* work is well taken. As a Brit, I found this para particularly fascinating: 'I also said “I think Kolawole did her due diligence for the story.” No, I don’t think she did, and nor did I. This has been a great learning experience for Kolawole, and she has been diligent in trying to repair her mistakes since it happened. She is young, is carrying a lot of responsibility for someone her age, and one of her direct supervisors recently left The Post, but she is not making excuses to me. I’m not making any either. I just didn’t do my homework.' I can't imagine any large-circulation media source over here even approaching that level of transparency. Cheers James On 01/03/2012 22:46, Thomas Haigh wrote:
Hello everyone,
Good news from the email battle. The Washington Post's Ombudsman has posted a lengthy and detailed retraction of his previous column. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/omblog/post/origins-of-e-mail-my-mea-cul pa/2012/03/01/gIQAiOD5kR_blog.html
This will also make my life easier, as I no longer have to try to present the actual history of email, correct the Post's errors in the original story and Ombusman blog, and debunk Ayyadurai all in one article. We can shift the focus to the real history, which is ultimately more productive.
Best wishes,
Tom
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Great news! Glad to see the Post is finally taking a modicum of responsibility for their content and role in disseminating information to the public. As others have noted, the Post's initial response to this situation echoed the way they mishandled Nathan's very legitimate complaints about plagiarism and inadaquate source attribution. Hopefully these repeated drubbings will improve their journalists' practices. Best, Marie _______________ Marie Hicks, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of History of Technology Lewis Department of the Humanities Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL mhicks1@iit.edu twitter: @histoftech www.mariehicks.net On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Thomas Haigh <thaigh@computer.org> wrote:
Hello everyone,
Good news from the email battle. The Washington Post's Ombudsman has posted a lengthy and detailed retraction of his previous column. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/omblog/post/origins-of-e-mail-my-mea-cul pa/2012/03/01/gIQAiOD5kR_blog.html
This will also make my life easier, as I no longer have to try to present the actual history of email, correct the Post's errors in the original story and Ombusman blog, and debunk Ayyadurai all in one article. We can shift the focus to the real history, which is ultimately more productive.
Best wishes,
Tom
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Hello everyone,
Good news from the email battle. The Washington Post's Ombudsman has posted a lengthy and detailed retraction of his previous column. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/omblog/post/origins-of-e-mail-my-mea-cul pa/2012/03/01/gIQAiOD5kR_blog.html
This will also make my life easier, as I no longer have to try to present the actual history of email, correct the Post's errors in the original story and Ombusman blog, and debunk Ayyadurai all in one article. We can shift the focus to the real history, which is ultimately more productive.
Best wishes,
Tom
Here's a new story about the email issue: http://gizmodo.com/5888702/corruption-lies-and-death-threats-the-crazy-story... I posted a comment with a link to the Post's retraction, but it has not yet appeared.
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