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From: specter@disk.UUCP (Byron Max Guernsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Reality check: Amiga coverage is not a right, but a privilege
Message-ID: <4762@disk.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 90 21:52:07 GMT
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Organization: The Alaskan Organization for Amiga Domination
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giguere@csg.waterloo.edu (Eric Giguere) writes:

>Someday I should really read the Mac or PC groups to see if they generate
>the same kind of frenzy this group does... 

>Various posters have asserted their offence at the lack of Amiga coverage
>in industry publications.  First of all, freedom of expression does not
>mean that you can DEMAND someone to publish something, only that that person
>is free to do so if they wish.  Only the publishers can decide what they
>want to publish.

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The problem, as I see it, is not that the mags such as byte don't want to
commit full articles to amiga, but it is that they will not even mention
amiga in related articles about general things. It would not take alot of
space to put the amiga on one of their little charts in an article 
(hypothetically) for unix running machines. 

Indeed it is their perogitive, but it is an insult to publications of all
kinds for a journalist to just disregard information because it is not
popular. An informative magazine should provide EVERY reasonable alternative
when investigating. 

For example, you would not want to get a magazine that has an article on
Televisions (and has a comparison chart) that does not mention 
a brand that is not as popular, but well suited and probably less 
expensive than magnavox. 

It is no wonder the amiga isn't accepted widely as a business machine. Until
business magazines start reviewing features of amiga, possible buyers will
not even have the chance to compare its options to other systems.

Byron Guernsey