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PC World Editor Resigns When Ordered Not to Criticize Advertisers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-can-only-imagine dept.

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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  1. Re:Harry McCracken? by _PimpDaddy7_ · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Dude that is so funny!!! LMAO

    Sincerely,

    Ben Dover

  2. Thats the way magazines and traditional media work by TibbonZero · · Score: 0, Redundant

    To a large degree, this is why I don't read magazines with any objectivity in mind.

    This guy just made the mistake of going against the grain. In magazines, you have the advertisers paying the majority of the costs associated with the magazine, and you write articles that glorify the advertisers.

    But I'm glad this doesn't happen on the Internet or Slashdot, so I'm going to go over to the Intel Opinion Center now...

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  3. Job prospects... by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm guessing Digg won't hire him to handle their HD-DVD articles...

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  4. That name by prisoner · · Score: 0, Redundant

    sounds familiar. Is he kin to "Phil McCracken"?

  5. Re:Hey, it happens by SailorRipley · · Score: 0, Redundant

    yes...try 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0

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  6. Re:Good character by Endo13 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    No.

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