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- Date: Mon, 01 Jan 96 02:04:21 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: Amiga promotion in USA.
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- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
- Message-ID: <rdingem.433r@grafix.xs4all.nl>
- Organization: Grafix Attack BBS Holland
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- In a message of 30 Dec 95 Jason Compton wrote to All:
-
- > publish papers written by manufacturer's tech support or engineering
- > departments about their new whizbang products. But I doubt that many
- > reputable city news papers fall into this catagory.
-
- JC> I've gotta disagree, Joanne. Doesn't it say something that the Philly
- JC> Inquirer was basically the only paper in the states to actively cover
- JC> the Commodore story? Oh, sure, it was ostensibly "local" because
- JC> Commodore US was based in Pennsylvania, but the story was one of
- JC> international intrigue and wheeling, yet only Dan Stets got it covered.
-
- JC> The business and technology sections of newspapers I've picked up are
- JC> little more than promo machines for Microsoft and the top 4 PC clone
-
- I'm afraid I'm gonna have to partly disagree, Jason. I've worked for a
- newspaper. Commodore's demise not being covered is a direct
- result of the importance of it's demise on a national and global
- scale, which is just about zip. After all, how many people worked at
- CBM when it went sour? Heck, we've got companies here in Holland that
- have sacked a hundred times as many people at some new manager's whim.
-
- The other news simply was more "devastating", more "newsworthy", sad
- probably, but true. And trouble in big companies is always guaranteed
- to come out on top.
-
- Nevertheless, you're right in stating that a lot - I won't say "most"
- - of general newspapermen know nothing about computers except that
- they need a "word processor", that computers are made by "IBM" and
- that software is made by "Microsoft".
-
- Regards, Ruud
- rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl
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