<p>Yeah, a couple weeks ago this company that decided it was a good idea to attach wifi stations to homeless people at South by Southwest and have people pay the homeless person to use their wifi. The media immediately got all over the company talking about how they were manipulating homeless people and how they are awful people. Then, NPR ran a good story a couple days later about how the abundance of information about this company and news outlets wanting to get the news out as fast as possible chastising the company stopped anybody from answering the most important question: what do the homeless people think about this? It turns out the homeless LOVED it; they were able to earn money as well as socialize with people, something they normally don’t get to do. In the end of the interview NPR ended by saying the media, them included, really dropped the ball on that story.</p>
<p>the situation <a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/technology/homeless-as-wi-fi-transmitters-creates-a-stir-in-austin.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/technology/homeless-as-wi-fi-transmitters-creates-a-stir-in-austin.html</a></p>
<p>I couldn’t find the NPR story.</p>