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From: paradis@encore.UUCP (Jim Paradis)
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: 25 Jan 88 16:41:45 GMT
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In article <331@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (eric townsend) writes:
>
>I've yet to find a periodical that is obviously this biased, but I'm
>still looking.  If you know of any, please email me, or anon smail me.

Well, just a teeny observation:  On more than one occasion have I seen
a product favorably reviewed in Byte magazine and then bought the product
only to find that the product had serious flaws which were glossed over or
not mentioned at all in the review.  In all cases, the reviewed product
was from a company that purchased significant amounts of advertising
space.  I no longer make buying decisions based on BYTE reviews...

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