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From: md41@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Marcus  Dolengo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Reality check: Amiga coverage is not a right, but a privilege
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Date: 17 Dec 90 05:52:49 GMT
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I read the article on the A3000UX in Byte and noticed the authors 1st paragraph
said something to the effect "old beliefs die hard" and his were "the amiga 
isnt a serious machine" etc. Who was he, how many articles has he written for
any mag and usually about what? anyone have an idea? The reason why I ask is
that perhaps he does NOT know about the amiga as much as he thinks, or as 
someone suggested "writers know about the amiga but exclude them because of
threats from users" <parafrased from another post>

Magazines that pretend to be a magazine of "the industry" such as Compute or
Byte <or perhaps PC World/week, assuming they do cover non ms-dos machines>
have no excuse for not covering all the machines in that market. If they do
not, they should be reminded that they have:

1: ignored a large user base
2: possibly lied to their readers by stating things that "cant be done" but 
   are being done by amigas.... etc. etc. etc.
3: little journalistic integrity for doing the above, and its readership should
   know this.

One was to do this is to write them letters. Not threatening, not condecending
<this isnt RUN magazine you know :D> but intellegent, non flame like letters.
Id think this would be more effeective than merely saying "they can write what
they want" because while it is true, they shouldbe accurate. and by ignoring
the amiga or glossing over it, they are not being accurate.


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