[Marketing] NYT: Nonprofit Laptops: A Dream Not Yet Over

[Sean DALY]

I too am astonished to see such a thing in print.

The writer is not the usual NYT beat reporter, she has the design
angle and clearly took online shortcuts instead of actually talking to
people. And online, that meme will continue in zombielike fashion
until there are enough articles telling the truth.

I will try to contact the writer. If the article was in the print
edition, I will write a correction letter to the editor.

Sean


On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> Hi Sean,
>
> On 8 Nov 2009, at 16:54, Sean DALY wrote:
>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/arts/09iht-design9.html?_r=1
>
>
> Not too bad an article for OLPC (but no mention of Sugar or educational
> content). One hugely inaccurate, frustrating, and grating statement:
>
> "Yet lots of people seem to want OLPC to flop. ... Techies have said it
> wouldn’t work and raged when OLPC replaced its bespoke operating system with
> one of Microsoft’s."
>
> How do we kill this false meme? Where do Journalists keep picking it up
> from?
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>
>