Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!ncsuvx!news From: kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: New magazines needed! Message-ID: <1990Dec18.120028.13181@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Date: 18 Dec 90 12:00:28 GMT References: <2418@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <1990Dec17.170549.15724@cs.umu.se> Sender: news@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: NCSU Computing Center Lines: 27 In <2418@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> dvljhg@cs.umu.se (J|rgen Holmberg) writes: >Well, since the defence I have seen for publications to print lies are that >when they try to print the truth about the Amiga they are always corrected. Clarification: no one has defended the repeated printing of gross errors. (and least of all, I, having spent years and some effort trying to get those mags to gather more info on non-PC/Macs). What we _have_ tried to point out are some of the _reasons_ behind not covering the Amiga (or for that matter, other systems... the Amy is certainly not alone in this respect). Agreed: reasons are <> good defense. But "defense" implies a moral judgement, and the real world ignores those. OTOH, you can work with reasons and actually get something accomplished (versus griping, which does no good... believe me; I was (and still am) a great old griper :). Want to move a mountain? Call or write the editors of those magazines. Ask them what you could do to help gain more coverage (perhaps sending in some great screen displays that they could use next time!). If you think of them as a larger version of your local club newsletter, you'll realize that gathering articles/info just ain't that easy ;-). Their difficulty no excuse or defense, but sure is a darned good reason. Granted, I doubt this will do any good in machine-specific mags (just as you rarely see fair coverage of other machines in Amiga mags). Still, it's action, not words. Sincerely -kev