__/ [ peterwn ] on Saturday 03 February 2007 19:09 \__
> On Feb 4, 7:54 am, 7 <website_has_em...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37411
>>
>> The Beeb criticised for promotion shambles while vista crap FLOPS.
>> They don't appear to show any balance and received record
>> number of complaints about balance of content.
>>
>> Many other channels showed Linux as competitors to the market
>> and had become more informative as a direct result of being
>> balanced.
>
> The 'Beeb' was not the only broadcaster suckered into running
> Microsoft's propaganda as a 'current affairs' item.
NBC and CNN are just a couple among many that fall under the same category.
They are dependent on Microsoft, so they have no guts to say the truth. It's
a suppressive cycle of fear and reward.
What happened to the guts?
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| Of one thing I am fairly certain. Microsoft all but eliminated
| mainstream software competition. As a result, Microsoft became
| the primary source of advertising revenue for mainstream publications.
| You don't bite the hand that feeds you. So instead of publishing
| issues calling for a worldwide boycott of Vista because it focuses
| more on what you can't do than what you can do, you see special
| editions praising Vista as the greatest advancement in computing
| since Windows 95. Granted we all know that Windows 95 was a dog
| from day one, but by the 90s, the mainstream press had already
| become rampant with Microsoft sycophants and they pushed Windows
| 95 like it was the second coming.
|
| [...]
|
| In short, I'd love to see a mainstream publication become an
| advocate for the consumer once again.
|
| As noted above, there are exceptions, including Linux Journal,
| most other FOSS-centered publications and even The Register.
| But we're the little guys.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000173
http://slated.org/bbc_microsoft_bias
Bill Gates lends cash to buy newspapers
$350 million to MediaNews
,----[ Quote ]
| Gates involvement has been very behind the scenes. In fact many of
| those involved in the deal didn'teven know he was one of the investors.
| It was carried out through the Gates Foundation, the world's largest
| philanthropy outfit.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33849
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