Re: Jeff Williams FAQ was Re: [atlarge-discuss] Re: [ga] HMS...

[William X Walsh <william@wxweb.com>]

Tuesday, August 06, 2002, 7:06:21 AM, Joe Baptista wrote:


> On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Gary Osbourne wrote:

>> Exactly. He calls into question the credibility of
>> anyone associating with him, even if they don't
>> wish that association.

> but jeff is considered credible.  look at all the press he's gotten over
> the years.  obviously these press people have taken the time to research
> their stories.  i've seen no retractions.  so we can assume jeff is very
> credible at least by the measure of credibility established by the press
> at large.  no?

Wrong.  At least 3 did retract, by editing their stories and reissuing
them without any reference to Jeff (such as Wired.com's ace reporter),
and the LA Times reporter he duped also disclaimed him.

The fact is that reporters rarely do more than a cursory investigation
of sources, and Jeff is good at making himself "appear" credible when
he wants to, and he regularly pulls the Jim Fleming stunt of pointing
people at URLs for sites like the NTIA comments section, claiming that
they prove his legitimacy since, as he claims, they had to screen all
comments (which is a falsehood, they published all comments,
unscreeneded on their website), and because Jeffrey appears in so many
archives online.  Had they done a little more digging they would have
discovered his fraud.

We know you respect him, because you are as much a disrupter as he is,
and you love anything that creates disruption.

My one and only response to you on this Joe.

-- 
Best regards,
William X Walsh <william@wxweb.com>
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