[LINK] For-profit publishers getting ready to trash-talk open access

[Roger Clarke]

>From: Glen Turner <glen.turner at aarnet.edu.au>
>Nature 2007-01-24, corrected 2007-01-25
><http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070122/full/445347a.html>
>PR'S 'PIT BULL' TAKES ON OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL PUBLISHERS LOCK HORNS WITH
>FREE-INFORMATION MOVEMENT.

It's about to be quoted in a paper I'm finishing on journal 
publishing, co-authored with Danny Kingsley from ANU - who flicked me 
the original article on 25 Jan.  (Sorry I didn't think to post it on 
to link).

The bit that astonishes me is the 'correction' to the pithy:

     "Media massaging is not the same as intellectual debate"

That was the whole point about McLuhan's book, and I can't believe 
that Nature would accept such a change without some nod to cultural 
history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Medium_is_the_Massage

>Correction:
>   In the original version of this story, Susan Spilka was reported as
>   emailing a note that said "Media massaging is not the same as
>   intellectual debate." It should have read "Media messaging", and has
>   been changed accordingly.
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