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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.trs-80
Subject: Re: Tandy yanks advertising from CW Communication
Message-ID: <452@moncol.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 3-Aug-85 15:33:46 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug  3 15:33:46 1985
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>From: chris@que.UUCP (Chris DeVoney)
>Message-ID: <402@que.UUCP>
>Organization: Que Corp, Indianapolis
>
>[...]
>Beckerman has instructed his media department to cancel all advertising
>contracts with InfoWorld and all other 60 CW Communications computer 
>publications and for his Marketing Information Department to crease all
>communications with InfoWorld. He regrets taking these actions be sees no
>other alternative when the negatives of a relationship outweight the
>positives.

This is especially unfortunate for owners of Tandy computers. One of CW
Communications other Publications is 80 MICRO, the last of the general
publications about Tandy computers, which covers it I/III/4 and
1000/1200/2000 series machines. The relationhsip between the magazine and
Tandy has only been since CW bought the publication from Wayne Green, but
seemed to be a good one with Tandy owners receiving the benefits.

>
>[...]
>InfoWorld's editors respond by saying Dvorak's column is popular, they
>have signed him to a new contract, it is understood by readers his column
>is gossip and not news, and they always try to check out a story but
>Tandy's policy of not responding to queries denies it an opportunity to
>deny the report.

Boy does this sound familiar. Wayne Green supposedly had a good
relationship with Tandy, then he printed a few unfounded rumors and
criticized some of Tandy policies and what happened... Tandy refused to
admit the existence of 80 Micro.

As they say, the more things change....


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