Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!frisbee!jcb From: jcb@frisbee.Sun.COM (Jim Becker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Multimedia farce Message-ID: <141560@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 30 Aug 90 00:33:06 GMT References: <4060@crash.cts.com> <141225@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1035@teslab.lab.OZ> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Lines: 59 andrew@teslab.lab.OZ (Andrew Phillips 289 8712) writes: ingle bob In article <141225@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> jcb@frisbee.Sun.COM (Jim Becker) writes: >If you read newspaper reviews of software, especially the San Jose >Mercury, there is very little mention of CBM or Atari products. ... This is the whole point of sending letters to editors to make them aware that they are *not* catering to their market. That is there are a lot of Amiga users out there who want to see reviews etc. I've done this in the past, sent one to Rob Ingle (Bob?) at the Mercury News. He called me on the phone. I had been pretty incensed about all the coverage of the PC with total lack of Amiga mention. I believe it was in terms of multi-tasking and usability. Anyway, turns out he has an Amiga for his kids - and likes the machine. Then he told me about how things work, in terms of what gets covered and what doesn't. One of the notable things mentioned is that the C64 should get a large bulk of the news, if one wanted to go by market size. But this isn't the basis of what gets covered. In the end, my letter didn't get printed. They occasionally print letters from Amigoids about how great the machine is, and the lack of coverage. But they get a lot of letters about other things as well. This conversation, with the editor of the paper, is why I've come to accept the Amiga being a second class citizen in terms of newspaper coverage. Perhaps things are getting better, I stopped reading the paper (and feel a lot better). I'd like to think that all things were fair and given equal treatment, and that everything in the paper was gospel and truth. But that isn't what has made the National Enquirer and the New York Daily News so widely read. Or built Hearst Castle.. The other point is to make sure that these sort of articles are factual rather than fashionable. That is Macs and SUNs may be fashionable with computer journos but people who have to use Multimedia should have all the facts. I'd also like to think everything printed is factual, but have seen some amazing statements of farce printed about different subjects in the computer world. Around here people just assume there are going to be mis-statements and mis-facts, and don't concern themselves over it that much. Guess they live longer. If OZ prizes factual over fashionable it sounds like a great place to live! Andrew PS Why didn't I ignore this agitator. Who, me? Just the voice of experience here... -- Andrew Phillips (andrew@teslab.lab.oz.au) Phone +61 (Aust) 2 (Sydney) 289 8712 -Jim -- Jim Becker / jcb%frisbee@sun.com / Sun Microsystems