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To: tejek who wrote (94453)	2/21/2000 8:28:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571776

Ted, RE: Online journalists barred... And the pony express dissed the telegraph...where is the PE now. This looks like the old boy network ganging up on the new kids in town....yet the old boys all have electronic media outlets? It looks like they want to stop an parellel growth of independents who are purely electronic until their own offerings are so firmly rooted that they will be able to control them. News starts at the source and is then sold as a feed to thousands of small print/audio/video outlets and the large groups ee the upstarts outdoing them in all areas of electronic news distribution. Well this will only keep the e-media out of the staged dog and pony shows, they will be well able to get their men onto the floors of CeBit and ask questions and take videos(from hidden cams of course). Now if they identify themselves as from the e-times to booth operators will CeBit manglement turn them out? This turns on whether or not a perticular booth operator sees the newsie as hostile or complimentary. So I expect they will be hidden and tactful if they are going to roast a booth operator, but if they are going to praise an op they will be able to out themselves. Even so I expect some will have to wear a disguise.....a Gates setup would do fine. Bill

To: tejek who wrote (94453)	2/21/2000 11:26:00 AM
From: Scot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571776

Ted, If you are an online journalist (count yourself lucky) and are making your way down to Hanover Germany for this year's CeBit you'd best cancel your plans. Online journalists aren't going to be permitted. Fancy that? Scot, apparently this is becoming the norm...online journalists were not allowed in at the recent Goldman Sachs event.....the news gets online to fast and is not fair to the printed media....read Wall Street Journal This is, of course, ridiculous. Although I don't read my WSJ subscription as much anymore.... They are also probably worried about "kids" from fan sites getting in for free. Between Anandtech, AMDzone...and the others...they often have better scoop earlier than anyone else. -Scot