[LINK] Newspapers online

Kim Holburn kim at holburn.net
Wed Mar 31 13:00:03 AEDT 2010


On 2010/Mar/31, at 11:28 AM, David Goldstein wrote:

> Given you've been making outlandish statements with no metrics  
> applied through all this discussion,

Maybe you're right.  I'm not sure which claims you mean exactly but  
it's entirely possible.

> I fail to see why I should have to justify myself with providing  
> metrics on this one.

So you can show yourself to be provably right and take the high moral  
ground rather than doing what you accuse me of?

> Not one of your "claims" has any basis. In fact, your "claims" are  
> mostly, if not totally, prejudiced garbage.

I don't know why you bother replying to me.  I don't think I would  
reply to someone like that.

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> David
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> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Kim Holburn <kim at holburn.net>
>> To: Link list <link at anu.edu.au>
>> Sent: Tue, 30 March, 2010 11:04:46 PM
>> Subject: Re: [LINK] Newspapers online
>>
>>
> On 2010/Mar/30, at 4:05 PM, David Goldstein wrote:
>
>> Since when is
>> a metric required for discussion on Link? With the
>> exception of
>> Roger and Tom, there's very little evidence-based
>> discussion
>> here.
>
> Good misdirection and ad hominem riposte.  So basically your
>> list of
> "quality" newspapers is based on your gut feeling, not any
>> actual
> measurement of anything?  Anybody could make up a list and
>> why would
> it be any more or less valid than yours?
>
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>>> From: Kim Holburn <> ymailto="mailto:kim at holburn.net"
>> href="mailto:kim at holburn.net">kim at holburn.net>
>>> To: Link list
>> <> href="mailto:link at anu.edu.au">link at anu.edu.au>
>>> Sent: Tue, 30
>> March, 2010 3:50:06 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [LINK] Newspapers
>> online
>>>
>>>
>> On 2010/Mar/30, at 2:50 PM, David
>> Goldstein wrote:
>>
>>> Quality
>>> newspapers - UK (Daily
>> Telegraph, Times, Guardian,
>>> Independent,
>>> FT), US (New
>> York Times, Washington Post, WSJ),
>>> Australia
>>>
>> (Australian), Germany (Die Zeit, Frankfurter Zeitung),
>>> France
>> (Le
>>> Monde)... to begin. In the UK and Australia, well,
>> that's
>>> it...
>>> the other countries there are other
>> newspapers one could add.
>>
>> I didn't
>>> ask what
>> newspapers you consider quality papers, I asked what
>> metric
>>>
>> do you use?
>>
>> Metric: A metric is a measure for
>> quantitatively
>>> assessing,
>> controlling or selecting a person,
>> process, event, or
>>> institution,
>> along with the procedures to
>> carry out measurements and
>>> the procedures
>> for the
>> interpretation of the assessment in the light
>>> of previous or
>>
>> comparable assessments.
>>
>> In other words how would
>>> you
>> measure this "quality"?  Is there an
>> objective way of
>>>
>> measuring this or is it just your opinion?
>>
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