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From: gorin@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Amy Gorin)
Newsgroups: alt.flame,soc.misc,misc.misc
Subject: Re: Slanted Journalism for Fun and Profit.
Keywords: IBM must be paying someone for all the glowing OS/2 reviews. :-)
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Date: 24 Jan 88 20:35:51 GMT
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Reply-To: gorin@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Amy Gorin)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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Infoworld is independent. 

It is, however, not all that uncommon for new computer-journalists to
wax ecstatic about the products they review or report. After all,
especially with a thing as new as OS/2, the only sources writers are
going to have are promo pamphlets and the company PR people.
 
LANworld was Novell's last time I checked. you shouldn't even have
to go as far as the mast or ownership info (on page four if the publication 
gets sent through US post) to find out affiliation. It should be 
in the flag (title for you laymen.) 

Lots of companies do it. most aren't
crass enough to print "reviews" of other products unless they are 
reprints from legitimate press.




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