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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
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Subject: Re: Reality check: Amiga coverage is not a right, but a privilege
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Date: 15 Dec 90 23:53:44 GMT
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In article <4762@disk.UUCP> specter@disk.UUCP (Byron Max Guernsey) writes:
>giguere@csg.waterloo.edu (Eric Giguere) writes:
>
>>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.
>
>[-- Various things cut out --]
>
>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. 
>
	Of course, we have no right to tell a magazine what to
do. But there has been, in U.S. magazines at least, a purposeful
exclusion of mention of the Amiga. They have decided, along with,
unfortunately, most of the business community in this country,
that the Amiga is a) made by a game company b) is a game computer
c) made by a company going bankrupt d) will never compete. They
have these opinions and refuse to look at the situation.
	Now, we can't tell them what to do, but they have a
RESPONSIBILITY to their readers. Byte claims to cover the
computer industry as a whole. They are, admittedly, the best of
the non-Amiga magazines.
	But then there is Personal Workstation which has been
following the only four operating systems which have true
multitasking, IPC, and a built-in complete GUI. Somehow the Amiga
didn't qualify. In fact, the Amiga wasn't even in the list (which
they gave in the first issue of the series) of OS's that were
excluded. It was simply ignored. The 4 OS's chosen had a total of
50 pieces of software between them. It was pathetic.
	They may not care, but their readers should care that
they aren't getting the whole truth.
	-- Ethan

	Woody Allen on Los Angeles:

	"I mean, who would want to live in a place where the only
cultural advantage is that you can turn right on a red light?"