Newsgroups
However hard I try to be accurate in my comments, there's always someone who takes the wrong meaning out of what I write. In Media Newsdesk I wrote:
"We advise Media Network readers to treat with caution messages in public newsgroups emanating from individuals who do not use their full or real names. We report Dutch media news only from credible professional and official sources."
By "public newsgroups" I meant precisely that - the groups you find on Usenet, which most professional people abandoned years ago because of the amount of "noise" from ill-informed people. By "public newsgroups" I mean those that require no registration, so you haven't a clue who's going to show up there, or who they are. Many hide behind screen names.
I did not mention, nor did I mean to implicate, anyone who takes part in message forums on bona fide media sites, which are in general frequented by people who do know something about the subject. Those are *not* public newsgroups, at least not if you use Internet terminology correctly. I participate in such forums myself.
If I did not make myself clear, despite using the correct terminology, I apologise.
12:23:58 AM 
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