And again, a reporter fails dismally
Saturday, 12 October 2013 12:16![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moemFor some reason, every time a reporter writes something about our hackerspace, s/he effs up royally. The previous one called us 'Hack24' instead of "Hack42', right in the headline; today, we're in the local newspaper in a spread about 'broedplaatsen' (literally breeding places, in fact cooperative workspaces). I've been interviewed by phone, a photographer dropped by, so I'm pictured and mentioned by real, full name. And what is the first line of the article?
"Hack42: they call it a hackerspace themselves, a place from where people break into computers."
The rest of the article goes on to explain that Hack42 is in fact not like all the other hackerspaces, and that we're more into tinkering and technological crafts. That doesn't really help, because the damage is already done and it's beside the point: the article states outright that hackerspaces are places where people get together to break into computers.
Good job, De Gelderlander. You have now managed to piss off all ten (or more, depending on the definition) hackerspaces in the Netherlands in one swell foop.
I guess the queston is: are you writing a rectification, or should we just break into your systems and do it ourselves?
(Har de har. Yes, that was a joke.)
"Hack42: they call it a hackerspace themselves, a place from where people break into computers."
The rest of the article goes on to explain that Hack42 is in fact not like all the other hackerspaces, and that we're more into tinkering and technological crafts. That doesn't really help, because the damage is already done and it's beside the point: the article states outright that hackerspaces are places where people get together to break into computers.
Good job, De Gelderlander. You have now managed to piss off all ten (or more, depending on the definition) hackerspaces in the Netherlands in one swell foop.
I guess the queston is: are you writing a rectification, or should we just break into your systems and do it ourselves?
(Har de har. Yes, that was a joke.)
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Date: 12 Oct 2013 22:28 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 14 Oct 2013 19:54 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 13 Oct 2013 03:13 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 14 Oct 2013 19:57 (UTC)I think she was stating what she thinks the general public believes. Shouldn't a newspaper inform, instead of repeating misconcentions that people may or may not have?