I hope that over time sense wins out.. after passions and free-flowing money and interests have died down.

Which is about as much of a ‘protest’ any individual can do against this sort of thing. However, even if everyone who is unhappy with their spin did it, it probably wouldn’t make much difference – they’ll attract plenty who are happy with that sort of spin to replace them. After all, such biased reporting doesn’t really hurt the ‘mainstream specialist press’, since people tend to read sites which re-enforce their own viewpoint, and lets face it, the pro-ms ‘geek set’ outweighs the gnu one somewhat.

The reg is just a laugh – they tend to bag almost everything at one point or another, and I don’t think even they take themselves particularly seriously most of the time. It is pretty easy to put a bullshit filter on their stuff.

BTW this ‘system gaming’ and mob-influence is making me quite uneasy with Wikipedia as well. It basically means any controversial topic cannot be trusted. And since people can get upset about just about anything — so you cannot always tell what they consider controversial — you’re left wondering if you can trust anything but the most mundane articles.