<div dir="ltr">Shows you the power of PR people to push stories for their own agendas.<div><br></div><div>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. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br><br>Steve Ross<br>Editor-at-Large, Broadband Communities Magazine (<a href="http://www.bbcmag.com" target="_blank">www.bbcmag.com</a>)<br>201-456-5933 mobile, 781-284-8810 landline<br>707-WOW-SSR3 (707-969-7773) Google Voice<br>editorsteve (Facebook, LinkedIn)<br>editorsteve1 (Twitter)<br><a href="mailto:steve@bbcmag.com" target="_blank">steve@bbcmag.com</a><br><a href="mailto:editorsteve@gmail.com" target="_blank">editorsteve@gmail.com</a><br><br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Christopher Mitchell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:christopher@newrules.org" target="_blank">christopher@newrules.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I just saw a similar article on Ars -<div><a href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/01/electrosensitives-seek-haven-in-wi-fi-quiet-zone-as-teens-set-up-hotspots/" target="_blank">http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/01/electrosensitives-seek-haven-in-wi-fi-quiet-zone-as-teens-set-up-hotspots/</a><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr">Christopher Mitchell<br>Director, Community Broadband Networks<br>Institute for Local Self-Reliance<div><br><a href="http://www.muninetworks.org" target="_blank">http://www.muninetworks.org</a><br><div>@communitynets</div><div><a href="tel:612-276-3456%20x209" value="+16122763456" target="_blank">612-276-3456 x209</a></div></div></div></div></div><div><div class="h5">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Steve Ross <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:editorsteve@gmail.com" target="_blank">editorsteve@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">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. <br>
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... </p>
<p dir="ltr">And so many activists complain about cellular or wifi yet have microwave oven and cordless phones emitting similar frequency. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Jan 10, 2015 11:27 AM, "Tom Johnson" <<a href="mailto:tom@jtjohnson.com" target="_blank">tom@jtjohnson.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><p dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/the-town-without-wi-fi/" target="_blank">http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/the-town-without-wi-fi/</a></p>
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