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Article #57Re: Argument: No Such Thing as Internet Addiction
From: beaner
Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 00:00
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"Mark Schneider" <marks@wimsey.com> wrote: >I will be interviewing prominent US researcher with startling evidence that >Internet addiction is not a recognized disorder, contrary to many published >reports. > >Please let me know what you think. Don't know about "internet addiction", but I have noticed a disturbing trend in the media (especially print) where reporters are relying too much on the net for research or writing filler articles for papers where the contents are too simple and uninformative for people already on the net, and useless for the people that aren't. As a result of relying on the net, we often read articles full of inaccuracies, urban legends believed to be true by the reporter, or too often, the author tries to determine a trend or public opinion from straw polls conducted in Usenet. Give me REAL news....not filler material from a reporter surfing the web and regurgitating what I can seek for myself.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1083bf,50bc14944e7bc03d X-Google-Attributes: gid1083bf,public X-Google-Thread: 1046d3,50bc14944e7bc03d X-Google-Attributes: gid1046d3,public X-Google-Thread: f99dc,50bc14944e7bc03d X-Google-Attributes: gidf99dc,public X-Google-Thread: fb374,50bc14944e7bc03d X-Google-Attributes: gidfb374,public From: beaner@cnet.com Subject: Re: Argument: No Such Thing as Internet Addiction Date: 1998/05/30 Message-ID: <3570c64b.20338545@news.direct.ca> X-Deja-AN: 357890762 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <yEBb1.998$ew4.2998315@newsgate.direct.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 01:48:52 PDT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Canada Internet Direct, Inc. Newsgroups: can.infobahn,can.politics,soc.culture.canada,van.general