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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Microsoft EXCELL
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Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 08:42:49 EST
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ward@hao.UUCP (Mike Ward), writing about John Dvorak's column on a rumored
new Microsoft product, writes:

>  He recounts an incident in which he wrote an article about the
>  product for a nation magazine, and had all references to EXCEL
>  and Microsoft taken out.  He refers to "an amazing willingness on
>  the part of editors to kowtow", and calls it "a low point in
>  journalism ethics".

Judging from SOME of the "rumors" published in SIMILAR columns in the past
(e.g., the rumor that Microsoft was in BIG TROUBLE because they had USED
some interrupt vectors that WERE reserved on the 80186, a rumor that turned
out to BE entirely false) maybe THE editors were just doing what EDITORS
are supposed to DO, trying to keep the NEWS REASONABLY accurate.

(And then, there was that rumor that Lotus wasn't going to put any of its
products on the Mac, because it was too hard to write software for, and so
terrible things were going to happen to Macintosh sales as a result...)

(Most of the above, incidentally, is good-natured :-).  I guess Dvorak is
kind of like Howard Cosell; you may not always like what he says, or the
strange way he writes it, but it sure is interesting to read it.)
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