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- From: jdow@BIX.com (Joanne Dow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga promotion in USA.
- Date: 1 Jan 1996 06:35:55 GMT
- Organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation
- Message-ID: <4c7vcb$5ft@news2.delphi.com>
- References: <4boajd$2cf$1@sydney.DIALix.oz.au> <4bqrrq$soi@flood.xnet.com> <4br63s$gue@alterdial.UU.NET> <4bteis$as5@news2.delphi.com> <4c3pa7$m6k@flood.xnet.com>
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- In article <4c3pa7$m6k@flood.xnet.com>,
- jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton) wrote:
- >
- >I've gotta disagree, Joanne. Doesn't it say something that the Philly
- >Inquirer was basically the only paper in the states to actively cover the
- >Commodore story? Oh, sure, it was ostensibly "local" because Commodore
- >US was based in Pennsylvania, but the story was one of international
- >intrigue and wheeling, yet only Dan Stets got it covered.
-
- I gotta tell you something based on my background. I grew up amongst the "rich
- and powerful". If some of the stuff I knew about in the auto industry was not
- covered because other news was "more important" this relatively minor Commodore
- thing is less important still.
-
- >The business and technology sections of newspapers I've picked up are
- >little more than promo machines for Microsoft and the top 4 PC clone makers.
-
- That is just about all there is out there today so why are you surprised?
- Newspapers print what they think their customers want to read. They think MOST
- of their customers are PClown owners so they report about them. Why should they
- bother to "offend" or "bore" 95% of their readership to please a fraction of
- 1% who are interested in any non-PCoid architecture? One does not need to relate
- all this to advertising dollars.
-
- *HOWEVER* if you examine news coverage by things such as the New York Times you
- will quickly discover that they have no ethics, morals, or editorial integrity.
- So once I thought of this aspect of the matter I dropped the matter because it
- is in retrospect obvious that so little a thing as advertising revenue driving
- content is no different from politics driving content and leading to outright
- lies, deceit, and deception.
-
- >--
- >Jason Compton jcompton@xnet.com
- >Editor-in-Chief, Amiga Report Magazine (708) 741-0689 FAX
- >The warming sun... ...the cooling rain.
- >AR on Aminet - docs/mags/ar???.lha AR Mailing list - Mail me
- > AR on WWW - http://www.omnipresence.com/Amiga/News/AR
-
- {^_^} Joanne Dow, Amiga Exchange Editor on BIX, aka The Wizardess
- jdow@bix.com, jdow@delphi.com, jdow@beta.delphi.com
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