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10/21/2007: "American news stories are bribed"

One of the reasons mainstream tech magazines like PC Magazine are so boring is because they're completely dependent on early access to new hardware and software, so companies like Microsoft and Apple use this carrot to keep them from being too critical. They've become product catalogs, which is one reason people look to blogs for a more candid and free-wheeling assessment of new products. While magazines were running cover after cover singing the praises of Windows Vista earlier this year, bloggers were putting up danger signs about upgrading to the new OS on existing PCs.

[ Same is true of mainstream media: no positive story, no interview in the future. ]

http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/news/3283/exclusive-techbloggers-have-sold-their-souls