[IP] more on Mainstream writers are biased Mac-users (so is your Edit or :) djf)
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From: "Bosley, John - BLS" <Bosley.John@xxxxxxx>
Date: October 21, 2005 1:46:40 PM EDT
To: "'dave@xxxxxxxxxx'" <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [IP] Mainstream writers are biased Mac-users (so is your
Edit or :) djf)
So let me understand this, Dave. If I'm a tech-savvy journalist who's
ideally situated to survey the available personal computers, and
after due
deliberation I choose a Mac, I'm "biased," according to Dvorak. Oh-
KAY--I'll
remember that next time I go car-shopping, just in case some
salesperson for
a US car company tries to talk me into buying one of his company's
gas-guzzling, monstrous, ugly SUVs instead of a nimble, economical,
spiffy-looking and reliable car from Honda or Toyota. I wouldn't want to
appear "biased," after all!
Heaven forbid that anyone challenge the wisdom of advertisers and
marketers,
those stellar examples of objectivity and Truth.
John
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From: David Farber [mailto:dave@xxxxxxxxxx]
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Subject: [IP] Mainstream writers are biased Mac-users (so is your
Editor :)
djf)
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From: John Adams <jadams01@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: October 21, 2005 12:32:46 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: For IP? Mainstream writers are biased Mac-users
Reply-To: John Adams <jadams01@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Via my brilliant and talented wife, the crack editor in the family
(write for rates if you happen to need a book designed):
From http://www.macnn.com/:
Microsoft is getting the short end of the stick as far as media
coverage, because today's newspaper and magazine tech writers know
little about computers and are all Mac users, according to John C.
Dvorak of PC Magazine. The top columnists in the news and business
magazines fit this model as well, while tech writers and tech
columnists for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek,
and Fortune are all Mac users, according to Dvorak. "This reality is
not going to change. In fact it will only get worse as technology
coverage is handed to newer, less-qualified observers who simply
cannot use a Microsoft Windows computer." Dvorak says that probably
the best thing Microsoft could have ever done was copy as much of the
Mac OS look-and-feel as it could, and says that "Microsoft should make
some headway with this biased crowd once the fanciful Xbox 360
arrives. It's got a creative GUI, is easy to use and navigate, and
kind of has a Mac look to it. It also interfaces perfectly with the
iPod."<<
That may be the harshest criticism I've heard of Windows in quite a
while.
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