Bias and Tech Reporting
October 20th, 2005 | Published in tech | 8 Comments
Everyone’s favourite ick-monger �
“As big and as important as Microsoft is, the coverage of the company is quite mediocre. This is particularly true in the mainstream press. The reason for this is that today’s newspaper and magazine tech writers know little about computers and are all Mac users. It’s a fact.”
Good God, John.
October 20th, 2005 at 6:55 am (#)
Ironic as it is, mainstream writers know so little about mainstream computers. What a shock. It’s the iPod effect isn’t it?
October 20th, 2005 at 7:04 am (#)
I have no issue with that part; but rather his linking their not knowing anything, with their being Mac users.
But I’ve always been biased and known to see everything Dvorak writes as fuckwitticism.
October 20th, 2005 at 7:05 am (#)
Heh. The guy’s funny and tells the truth!
October 20th, 2005 at 8:19 am (#)
Hmmm… it’s a stereotype to say all use Mac. Evurl Windows still rules la…
October 20th, 2005 at 2:32 pm (#)
I guess most tech writers who made the switch to macs or started with macs early in their careers have a disdain for all things microsoft. When my windows bluescreened on me over the weekend I swore my next computer will be a mac – i shall not start on that. But anyhow perhaps his reference his with writers who are mac users, not mac users in general.
October 20th, 2005 at 2:39 pm (#)
Tell him to come live in Singapore, where we have tech writers who know absolutely nothing about computers and are all Windows-only users.
October 20th, 2005 at 3:12 pm (#)
Do we have good tech writers to start with?
October 20th, 2005 at 3:14 pm (#)
Daring Fireball.