“Respectable journalists don’t just disclose,” writes Ian King, who takes issue with my acceptance of the Vista-pre-loaded laptop from Microsoft last month.
I will counter and end the argument by saying “consider the source”. In this case, Mr. King writes for the Sun chain, a group of newspapers who unashamedly model themselves after British tabloids, from so-called “reporters” who are really drunks with notepads, to the “page three girls”, to bad writing to the target readership of just-short-of-functionally-literate yobbos, chavs and lager louts. Barely suitable for fishwrap, I’ve seen better papers after wiping my ass.
Respectable journalists don’t work for the Sun. The organization for which Mr. King works is not so much a newspaper as it is a flyer for a bunch of discount stereo stores that uses what barely passes for “news” as a excuse for printing.
5 replies on “Respectable Journalists Don’t Work for the Sun”
Did you see the link for the “opinion” column at the bottom of that for “Cut the bull” where it says “Among the many reasons to cut the bull on global warming, it turns out a staggering 24 million tonnes of annual greenhouse gas emissions are coming from the exhaust pipes of Canadian cattle and other farting farm animals.”?
Missed that one! I’ll have to give it a look later.
I don’t think you’re stepping over some kind of ethical line, since you didn’t have to sign anything to get the laptop.
That said though, if Microsoft wanted a different end result (i.e. everybody to give away the review laptops), they should have structured their promotion accordingly. Make the Ferrari laptops loaners rather than freebies, and after you return the goods to MS, they could have given them away as they see fit. Their mistake — is anybody should learn something from all the kafuffle, it is Microsoft.
So when’s the next review chunk coming… how does Vista rate, performance-wise?
C’mon Joey, that ad hominem attack is pretty lame. Get a real argument, with, oh, some facts.
Geez, Paul Robert’s Rules of Order> is such a buzzkill!
But seriously: Tell you what — I post my arguments later tonight. It’s a busy day at work today.