edition love - fifteen, august 2007. word of the month: jengaing
INTERNET
USERS SUING MEDIA OUTLETS
(NO, WE CHECKED, IT’S THE RIGHT WAY AROUND)
It seems
that internet forum members are continuing to show journalists the
way, breaking big news stories, and they now want a share of the legitimate
media’s income.
“Who needs
to buy magazines? Everything’s on the internet ages before it’s
in the media,” one internet user, appelonamat, surmised.
“I reckon
they just spend all day on forums like this one getting all their
news.
“They put
it straight onto the page and make money off of our good work.
“So I propose
that all of their income - their income, not their profit - be channelled
back into internet forums. Without internet forums, they’d be
without a job.”
Unsurprisingly,
the stance has gained support from some other internet forum users.
“Y do npapers
and magz have 2 cum and copy us? Were 2gd 4 them, thats y. lol,”
said one.
“I recon
that’s the best idear I’ve ever heared,” added Prom
Racer.
“Maybe we
shuld share the money with wiki pedia, cos they told us about Loic
Duval at WPS, which must be true if it’s on there,” suggested
another.
“Teh internetz
rulz so much betta. Even tho some cites r pretty ordinary, everythin
on its tru, you can take it two teh bank.”
