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From: drc@dbase.UUCP (Dennis Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac magazine review continue
Message-ID: <272@dbase.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Nov-87 10:45:55 EST
Article-I.D.: dbase.272
Posted: Thu Nov 26 10:45:55 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 1-Dec-87 03:28:17 EST
References: <34557@sun.uucp> <430009@hpcea.CE.HP.COM> <4529@well.UUCP>
Organization: Ashton Tate Development Center Glendale Cal.
Lines: 21
Keywords: magazines, opinion
Summary: More opinion

In article <4529@well.UUCP>, alcmist@well.UUCP (Frederick Wamsley) writes:
> Macworld's latest issue's cover article is about problems with 
> mail-order firms.  It names names and gives readers advice about
> who to buy from (and who *not* to).  A full-page box lists
> Icon Review horror stories.
> 
> The interesting thing is that Icon Review has a two-page color ad
> in the same issue.  That's right, they actually ran negative news
> about an advertiser.  This makes me feel good about Macworld.

It was even more than that.  There was an Icon Review catalog in the same
plastic wrap as my issue of MacWorld.  My opinion is probably a little biased
since I now write for them on occasion, but I wouldn't have started if I didn't
think that they were cleaning up their act.  I used to rag them about being
"MacFluff", as did a lot of other people -- they took notice and changed their
direction quite a bit in the last year and a half or so.  I would also like to
see even more "techie" material and if they get enough requests for it, I'll
probably get more.  They have to cater to a broad audience and people that
program the Mac are a distinct, albeit vocal, minority.

Dennis Cohen