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    Apple Has Fans & Microsoft Has Shills

    January 17th, 2007

    Over the years, one of the reasons why Apple has persevered despite lots and lots of failures in products and the “vision thing” is because so many people love their Macs and were willing become unpaid cheerleaders. Indeed, there is something about the Mac experience that — even though the computers remain highly imperfect devices […]


    On the Ethics of Paying Reporters for Favorable Stories

    April 23rd, 2005

    I’ve long felt that the news that the U.S. government has paid some reporters to become, in effect, shills for federal programs was the tip of the iceberg. Besides, it’s not as if private industry hasn’t done the very same thing. So I wasn’t surprised to learn that, for example, Corey Greenberg, who works these […]