[OT] Re: FTA and news media (was: Re: [plug] xbox)

[James Devenish]

In message <20040304202133.66b4482f.harrymc at decisions-and-designs.com.au>
on Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:21:33PM +0800, Harry wrote:
> IT and technology is the fall guy not sugar growers. 

Various negative impacts upon intellectual property (and other nuances
besides the better-known pharmaceutical and agricultural trade issues)
have been known for some time, so why is it that media coverage
continues to overlook these matters? And why are the media unable to
correctly use words like "phenomenon" versus "phenomena", prepositions
like "<verb> on Monday" versus "<verb> Monday", "at the weekend" versus
"on the weekend", and punctuation like apostrophes versus commas?