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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.
That's good, an editor or news outfit should never be swayed by an advertiser. Guess I'll go read Slashdot's Intel Opinion Center now...
Trolling is a art,
Well I'm glad to hear this at least. I do find it a bit funny that PC World is now skewed to Apple heh.
Dude, this is obviously a late april fool's joke.
Sincerely, I. P. Freely
Yep. So is spelling.
Yes, but that was a good thing. After all, it's John Dvorak we're talking about.
!#@%*)anks for hanging up the phone, dear.
Why he didn't simply send a flame letter to Jobs and ask him for help?
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These tired, grade-school funny name jokes?
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Hugh G. Rection
A goal is a dream with a deadline
If you think dead-tree press wasn't bought before, I have a nice bridge to sell you. It's at the foot of a huge mountain in Kansas with a great ocean view...
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Actually I work for a print media company (newspapers), but I'm a coder, not a writer.
If you googled me, I think it'd be more likely that you thought I worked for Slashdot. =P
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
No, no, no. If you want to write like a net.kook, you have to EMPHASIZE random UNRELATED WORDS like THIS. Boldface doesn't do it, it's LOTS OF CAPS.
See the Time Cube website for the canonical example.
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
E pluribus sanguinem
if this guy is related to the famous journalist Zak McCracken?
I keep reading your hidden message, but it just doesn't make sense to me. "John Dvorak fired Trash-80 Radio Shack biggest" Am I missing a cipher key to translate that into something else?
Not this time, Mr. Luthor. I'm still trying to figure out what to do with my worthless house in "Otisburg".
It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.
The video game industry has suffered from this for ages. No matter how crappy or buggy the game, it would get good reviews from the rags and web sites.
Good point. 4/5
This guy's the limit!
Try this
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Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
No, I think he's thinking of the bridge between Libertarians and the funny farm... just don't let the invisible hand smack your ass along the way!
Multiplayer Gaming (defined): Sitting around, discussing single-player games with my friends, at the bar.
If a third nipple is useless, what exactly are you doing with the other two?
Only traditional spelling is dying. New spellings are born every day!
British computer magazines generally have much better editorial content than their American equivalents and don't seem to pull punches when it comes to reviews.
Borders and Barnes and Noble carry most of the popular ones.
I'd be inclined to agree if I ever read any UK content... if only I could ever get past page 3.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
won't be renewing my subscription.