PC World Editor Resigns When Ordered Not to Criticize Advertisers

bricko noted a story of our modern journalism world gone so wrong it makes me sad. "Editor-in-Chief Harry McCracken quit abruptly today because the company's new CEO, Colin Crawford, tried to kill a story about Apple and Steve Jobs." The link discusses that the CEO was the former head of MacWorld and would get calls from Jobs. Apparently he also told the staff that product reviews had to be nicer to vendors who advertise in the magazine. The sad thing is that given the economics of publishing in this day and age, I doubt anything even comes of this even tho it essentially confirms that PC World reviews should be thought of as no more than press releases. I know that's how I will consider links from them in the future. But congratulations to anyone willing to stick to their guns on such matters.

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Good Riddence

[aJester]

Going by the coverage of Mac in PC world, they are filled with MS-shills. So yeah, now that they have an ex-MacWorld editor, their Apple bashing would reduce to a large extend.
Am sure the old guards that were used to slinging mud at Apple whenever they get bored will have now have to actually write a more balanced piece. And if some ass hates Mac so much that he thinks he can't do it, he should resign.

I say "Good Riddence..!"
We need more editor's who can give a balanced coverage to Macs, Windows, Linux and all other platforms.