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Media bias and Macs
PC Magazine columnist John Dvorak wrote an opinion piece claiming that the technology writers at major news outlets -- namely The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Fortune and Forbes -- are strongly biased to covering Apple news, and notably more so than they write about Apple competitors, even Microsoft.
The reason, Dvorak espouses, is that the tech writers at those publications all use the Mac. Thus, their familiarity with Apple and, in some cases, favoritism of the platform tends to cloud their objectivity. And because they use Macs that OS has become the de facto standard by which all other operating systems, including Windows, are now judged.
I don't wholeheartedly agree with Dvorak about this bias, but he does raise a number of interesting points that make Media Bias and Technology Reporting worth reading.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on October 20, 2005 08:32 AM
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