[LINK] Keeping Rupert and Steve Happy
Jan Whitaker
jwhit at melbpc.org.au
Tue Dec 8 18:25:30 AEDT 2009
At 05:40 PM 8/12/2009, Roger Clarke wrote:
>The 'Global Technology Radar' turns out not to be what you'd expect,
>but instead a matrix of IT suppliers against the products they sell.
>
>The sponsor is also the first-named supplier. And the most-reported.
>And the only company granted its own section down the bottom of the
>page.
>
>If this is the quality journalism that Rupert wants to charge us for,
>I can't see anyone paying any money for it, apart from the sponsor of
>course.
The Age does something similar. You think you're going to get
articles about technologies, but they're ads. See Phone Deals. The
thing is, I allow Age scripts only, but these are driven from
something else, so the tabs don't work. :-)
Jan
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