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From: gnome@oliveb.olivetti.com (Gary)
Newsgroups: alt.flame,soc.misc
Subject: Re: Slanted Journalism for Fun and Profit.
Message-ID: <13651@oliveb.olivetti.com>
Date: 25 Jan 88 08:08:31 GMT
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Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, CA
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> 
> From Info-World, 9 Novemeber 1987, front page:
> Headline:  OS/2's Arrival Marks The Dawn of a New Era
> Byline: Michael J. Miller
>      Next month's shipment of the first version of OS/2 will mark the
> beginning of a new era in software development.
 > 
 > This is some of the most biased, slanted, editorialized, etc, etc
 > so-called "journalism" that I've seen in the past few months.

There are examples of magazines being funded by featured companies...

I also think that much of the "periodicals" dealing with the
PC industry are spineless limp-dicked brown-nosing entities
that hope to get a "scoop" from IBM or Compaq by making
their products sound like the best thing since sliced-sex!

Another aspect is that the editorial personnel don't want to
be critical about a product that may become the next "standard".

Let's look at these great achievements of late --
OS2 - Microsoft trying to imitate UNIX.
PS/2- IBM selling old AT's with a new, and relatively unadvanced bus.
Presentation manager - Can you say 'Mac'?

I like AST's (I think it's AST) extended bus that allows all of the
multi-master capabilities of the PS2 without having to trash your
inventory of existing plug-in boards.

Gary
"Why do IBM manuals remind me of Vogon poetry?"