Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!kodak!uupsi!sunic!cs.umu.se!dvljhg From: dvljhg@cs.umu.se (J|rgen Holmberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Industry Publications Ignoring the Amiga. Message-ID: <1990Dec13.033549.6154@cs.umu.se> Date: 13 Dec 90 03:35:49 GMT References: <1990Dec12.054959.21185@ecst.csuchico.edu> <636@cbmger.UUCP> Sender: news@cs.umu.se (News Administrator) Organization: Dep. of Info.Proc, Umea Univ., Sweden Lines: 42 In article <636@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes: >In article <1990Dec12.054959.21185@ecst.csuchico.edu> ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) writes: >> >> The newspapers don't give a damn about the news. They just want >>to make sure that their advertisers are happy because that's who >>gives them their paychecks. > >I disagree a little here: The magazines also must ensure the >advertizers that at least SOME people READ those ads. And I always >believe that people and especially computer magazine readers are >not as dumb as always stated. So they also choose the magazines >they read after their impression of how competent and informative >a magazine is. And when it turns out and becomes public conscience >that one magazine simply doesn't konw about an important part of >the market, then this magazine will be sold less, fewer people >read the ads, and the advertisers will turn to magazines that >know better. > >Well, sounds perhaps a bit idealistic. But at least here in our >place it works this way as I told in another posting. > It sounds a lot like utopia to me. People are stupid. Don't take that personal unless you have to :-) Look at this net for instance. My impression of the net is that it must be the most computer-literate information system available. Still we have a LARGE number of people claiming that you can't use the amiga for anything but games and that IBM invented multimedia just to take some examples close to this group. Other groups have similar problems with people talking about things they know little or nothing about. Yes, I know, I am one of those people who like to see my voice in print no matter what I say. That also makes me sort of an expert on the subject though :-) The majority of postings on the net are just rehashing old facts and fiction. The same holds true in an even higher degree for computer magazines. After reading a couple of PC rags I have come to the conclusion that people don't buy them to get information but to get as much paper as possible. /Jorgen -- ******************************************************************************* email dvljhg@cs.umu.se - other ways to communicate are a waste of time. Everything I say is always true, just apply it to the right reality. "Credo, quia absurdum est."