[Fwd: [Bug 163675] mpeg situation not explained in ...

[Jeremy Hogan]

One thing that would be handy in these situations would be a "review"
that accomanied the release notes. You highlight the product, the way
you wish a journalist would, and send it out. If you answer the
recurring mistakes (e.g. they evaluate it as a production distro, they
assume mulimedia issues are shallower than they are, etc).

You write the spotlights from with the position you want Fedora to
maintain (i.e. from and for the point of view of the appopriate user.)
We can tell people why DVD and MP3 support is gone, point out
alternative technologies, or anit-patent petitions, and even link to
sites that have workaround instructions. Even safer, we can advise
they "Google it".

It's not fair to say all journalists are lazy, but enough of them are
lazy and/or sloppy (or have editors/fact checkers less familiar with
the material than they are) to make this worthwhile, since they will
cut paste and paraphrase this into a "story" the way they do with
press releases on slow news days. For those that don't, it's very easy
for us to post a link to this  "release review" and the tertiary,
release notes and FAQs in the comments of any article that takes the
wrong approach.

--jeremy