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- From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
- Subject: Re: Why do we read PC mags?
- Organization: Open Age, Inc.
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 14:49:51 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.144951.3357@openage.openage.com>
- References: <GERRY.93Jan8111215@onion.cmu.edu>
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- gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) writes:
-
- >I recently resubscribed to PC Magazine, and after having received the
- >January 26 issue, I must ask myself why. The columnists are total
- >morons, the hardware reviews are wrong, self-contradictory and biased,
- >and the ads are not as good or plentiful as the Computer Shopper.
-
- [stuff deleted]
-
- Although I do not write for PC Magazine, I do write for SCO Magazine, and I
- would like to clue you in on the process of publishing. First in Janurary my
- editor and I discuss the article he wants for the next issue. Then I write it
- and have it done by Feburary. Then he and the other editors layout the
- magazine and make slides of the copy in March. In late March it goes to the
- printer, and in early April you get it.
-
- Lot's of time lag, and lots of human beings involved, and you wouldn't beleive
- how unresponsive some companies are to helping members of the press. I
- recently did an article reviewing ethernet boards, and 1 company took almost a
- month to get me the product for the review.
-
- It comes down to buying the magazine that is right for you. If PC Mag doesn't
- give it too you, then you need to switch. I would also send them mail when
- they are incorrect.
-
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