{"id":453,"date":"2006-09-27T17:26:47","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T15:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.2\/en\/?p=453"},"modified":"2006-09-27T17:26:47","modified_gmt":"2006-09-27T15:26:47","slug":"ken-li-from-reuters-and-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=453","title":{"rendered":"Ken Li From Reuters and I"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week in NYC I was interviewed by Ken Li at Reuters. Ken had already done a funny post<\/a> in the Reuters blog about me at the Sun Valley conference. During this interview we ran into one of those situations where the ethics of journalism may be compromised. <\/p>\n

I brought a FON Router to show Ken during the interview and leave behind so he could test it at home, but then the issue came up that this could be interpreted as a gift to a journalist and, therefore, lead to a favorable story on FON. Still we find a way to fix this. Ken forked out $5 and bought the Fon router! Then, while at the Nokia event, I found out that Ken and I had been way too concerned as journalists who attend the Nokia launches get $500 multimedia handsets and other gadgets. Personally, I tend to side with the journalists here. If journalists do not get gagdets for free, how are they going to get to own them, test them and write about them? They would spend their whole salaries in gadgets as most are not $5 Fon routers.<\/p>\n

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This week in NYC I was interviewed by Ken Li at Reuters. Ken had already done a funny post in the Reuters blog about me at the Sun Valley conference. During this interview we ran into one of those situations where the ethics of journalism may be compromised. I brought a FON Router to show […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t