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eye WEEKLY                                                 March 24 1994
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ROLLING EYE                                                  ROLLING EYE

                        KARLA GETS WIRED CROSSED

                                   by
                              K.K.Campbell


Hold on to your April copy of _Wired_, kids, 'cause the cops are carting
them off.  Instant Canadiana. 

_Wired_, a slick, ultra-hip magazine about the Internet, gives details
of Karla Homolka's plea.  Judge Kovacs' media ban says you can't do that
(see paragraph 141(3) and 144(2)).  Contempt of court. 

_Wired_'s report focuses on how the global-spanning Internet computer
network has let Canadians read foreign news stories otherwise
seized/blacked-out. 

It's no surprise _Wired_ is interested in this story; it _is_ surprising
how badly they could screw it in 500-words-or-less. 

Besides breaking the very publication ban they discuss (translation: the
reporter didn't even read Judge Kovacs' order), the story is woefully
inaccurate.  One sentence reads: "The nonstop press coverage prompted
Paul Teale's lawyer to ask for a media gag order until the conclusion of
the trial...."

Wrong.  Teale's lawyer opposed the ban.  Homolka's lawyers supported the
ban. 

Further down: "In August, a group of McGill University students created
an [Internet discussion] group, alt.fan.karla-homolka, to discuss the
case."

Wrong.  The Homolka discussion group was created July 14, 1993 (days
after the court ban began), not in Montreal but Toronto (by Justin
Wells, stem@io.org). 

After wasting space bungling the facts, _Wired_ then forgets to add the
most essential piece of Internet information, _where to find_ all the
Homolka/Teale stories:

FTP: ftp.uu.net in the directory /tmp/karla; 
WWW: http://cs.indiana.edu/canada/karla.html.  

(If you don't understand what this crap means...  get with it, eh?)


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