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Seth

Appalling 

In Open source anti-Semitic as well as communist shock

IT Angle

It would be interesting to know why a tech site is airing accusation of anti-Semitism in the first place, especially when it is simultaneously admitting that the company it is accusing didn't really commit this heinous thought crime.

This recalls the Ron Paul smear champaign, in which the press, including the technical press, did precisely the same thing. They admitted that the offending e-mail wasn't issued by the Ron Paul campaign, but continued to report on the spam as though it was, thereby smearing Ron Paul by association -- just as this article smears OpenMoko by association.

I believe this is called an ad hominem presentation and I suspect that every first year journalism student is taught how to avoid doing it. It was absolutely inappropriate for The Register to have printed this article. This is as unprofessional an example of journalism as I can think of.

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