Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!jonh!jhenders From: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: letter to byte Message-ID: Date: 29 Dec 90 15:08:00 GMT References: <1990Dec27.143602.29914@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1990Dec26.1113.4336@canrem.uucp> Reply-To: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca Distribution: comp Lines: 19 X-Version: Martin's Mailer Version Sep 07 1990 23:50:52 All this just support the " Toothless Byte " thread that was running a while back. When a magazine goes from being a source of information which might inform it's readers about things of interest to them, to a bunch of accountants determining " what's in it for us? " then the magazine may as well just become a rehasher of companies press releases. Then the same thinking becomes " We better not give xxx companies product a bad review, as they have a big ad account with us. " At that point the magazine becomes pretty useless to the readership they once served. BYTE used to be a magazine for all sorts of small systems, now they're just another PC World. -- John Henders jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca Vancouver,B.C. or jhenders@wimsey.bc.ca or ubc.cs!van-bc!jonh!jhenders