Slashdot is back to simply inventing news when the reality doesn’t fit it’s world view. An item on the front page of the site about the Department of Justice’s decision to not seek a breakup of Microsoft says,
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that it had been instructed by President Bush to cease its drive to break up Microsoft, which has already been found guilty of violating U.S. anti-trust law in a complaint filed by the Federal Government and 19 states.
The problem is that there’s not a single sentence in any news story that even hints that President George W. Bush had anything at all to do with the announcement. Of course, if you’re Slashdot whether or not something is accurate seems to be largely irrelevant.
The one advantage of traditional media is that people who make egregious errors like that do tend to get fired pretty quickly.
Oh, and, I told you so! Dan Gillmor, Dave Winer, etc. were all crowing about how the Appeals Court ruling was a devestating loss for Microsoft and Bill Gates attempts to put a positive spin on it weren’t fooling anybody. Not!