{"id":783,"date":"2007-12-02T19:35:41","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T02:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnightowl.com\/2007\/12\/02\/newsletter-418-preview-im-ticked-off-by-shoddy-tech-journalism\/"},"modified":"2008-03-25T09:49:09","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T16:49:09","slug":"newsletter-418-preview-im-ticked-off-by-shoddy-tech-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2007\/12\/newsletter-418-preview-im-ticked-off-by-shoddy-tech-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #418 Preview: I&#8217;m Ticked Off By Shoddy Tech Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some tech pundits, such as John Dvorak, seem to exist solely to push the right buttons and get hits by writing sheer nonsense. They figure that, if you piss off enough people, they&#8217;ll respond by complaining and drawing more attention to their stuff.It may be a masochistic approach, but I think the real motive is greed. If they bring more traffic to their publishers, they can command more dollars for their work. Or just bask in the glow of their ill-gotten 15 minutes of fame.<\/p>\n<p>A recent entrant into this questionable group is Oliver Rist, who writes for PC Magazine. In a column entitled, <a title=\"Is this article worth a comment? I'm not sure, but that didn't stop me!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2704,2223921,00.asp\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Leopard is the New Vista and It&#8217;s Pissing Me Off,&#8221;<\/a> he demonstrates quite clearly that there are few facts he can&#8217;t mangle, and lots of examples of sheer ignorance that make you wonder why that publication actually released this piece of sheer trash into the wild.<\/p>\n<p>No I&#8217;m not about the say that Leopard is the perfect operating system. Lord knows that there&#8217;s no way any point-zero release will be trouble-free right out of the box. There will be conflicts with third-party software, and various degrees of flakiness.<\/p>\n<p>Lest you forget, Tiger was somewhat ragged at the outset too. That&#8217;s perfectly understandable, and such issues usually diminish rapidly after a maintenance update or two.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Click here to read the rest of the story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/newsletter\/2007\/12\/02\/newsletter-issue-418\/#two\"><strong>Story continued in this week&#8217;s Tech Night Owl Newsletter.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some tech pundits, such as John Dvorak, seem to exist solely to push the right buttons and get hits by writing sheer nonsense. 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