On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:50:01 -0800, Tim Smith wrote:
> In article <1982242.hPIgOZSkWV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I sometimes write articles for Datamation and that's just what I ever
>> get paid for (once in a couple of week for one article that I write).
>
> BTW, if you are smart, don't count on that gig lasting too long. If you
> had hopes of making it as a tech reporter, you should have observed that
> it is important for reports from different organizations to maintain a
> professional relationship with each other. All those posts where you
> accuse reporters for other magazines/sites (and even once a fellow
> Datamation reporter!) of being on the take from Microsoft will close a
> lot of doors for you.
>
> At some point, Datamation is going to figure out that a reporter that
> libels the reports at other magazines, and that does little or no fact
> checking of his own work, is a liability.
They already know :)
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Moshe Goldfarb
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