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[Steve Ross]

Shows you the power of PR people to push stories for their own agendas.

Remember how the NYT did a front page story on the Obama stimulus program
in 2009 as it was being considered in Congress? The story zoomed in on the
broadband package, 1% of the total program, as s "cyberbridge to nowhere."
 The NYT stenographer (he called himself a reporter) said he had come up
with the phrase himself. Right. Just a few days earlier PR for a major
cable company had used the phrase on me.



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On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Christopher Mitchell <
christopher at newrules.org> wrote:

> I just saw a similar article on Ars -
>
> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/01/electrosensitives-seek-haven-in-wi-fi-quiet-zone-as-teens-set-up-hotspots/
>
> Christopher Mitchell
> Director, Community Broadband Networks
> Institute for Local Self-Reliance
>
> http://www.muninetworks.org
> @communitynets
> 612-276-3456 x209
>
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Steve Ross <editorsteve at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> And yet,  almost all the double-blind challenge tests,  where you
>> randomly subject electrosensitive people to signals,  turn out negative. I
>> know of a half-dozen mildly positive studies,  only two of which could be
>> replicated by the researchers, but used methodologies not quite double
>> blind.
>> It is always possible that some people are sensitive to some
>> wavelengths,  but everything from fluorescent ballasts at 3600 Hz to wifi
>> at 2.4 or 5.2 GHz or cellular at 1.9 GHz? Yes, there are harmonics, but
>> signal strength gets so low so fast...
>>
>> And so many activists complain about cellular or wifi yet have microwave
>> oven and cordless phones  emitting similar frequency.
>> On Jan 10, 2015 11:27 AM, "Tom Johnson" <tom at jtjohnson.com> wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/the-town-without-wi-fi/
>>>
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