thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) (12/26/89)
(Perhaps the newspaper should change its name to Hoser Mercury News? :-)
For those not aware, the San Jose (California) Mercury News (SJMN) touts
itself as the premier daily award-winning newspaper of Silicon Valley and
Northern California.
For those who've read this newsgroup (and its predecessor, net.micro.amiga)
over the past 3 years, you'll recall my hundreds of excerpts and direct quotes
from the SJMN pertaining to the Amiga; seldom is the SJMN complimentary to the
Amiga. In fact, at times it seems the SJMN deliberately and possibly
maliciously (IN MY OPINION) badmouths, slanders, and reports negatively on the
Amiga. They have had 3 Computing Editors in those 3+ years, all of whose
posturing reflected poorly on the Amiga, its capabilities, and its reputation.
Recently, Joe Smith posted the presence of two articles in the Dec.17, 1989,
SJMN which appeared to reverse the SJMN's normal tendency!
However ...
The following item, exactly reproduced in its entirety, is on page 3E
(BUSINESS Section) of the Dec.25,1989 San Jose Mercury News' LETTERS TO THE
EDITOR column. What is NOT evident is that the headline font is 1/4" tall.
And why does the SJMN think ATARI manufactures the Amiga? Sigh.
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In any event, at least the body of the letter is complimentary, and presented
here for your perusal:
" ATARI beats Mac, PC for multimedia
Editor:
I often enjoy James J. Mitchell's column, but the Comdex article
("The future for computer users," Nov. 16) was more than a bit
misleading. Contrary to what William M. Spaller of IBM says, if
multi-media software automatically made things easier, a VCR would
be easier to use than a piece of stereo equipment.
On the other hand, waiting around for IBM to cobble something
together is not necessary. The digitized, animated, screeching
eagle was impressive ... when it was shown at the Amiga's debut
four years ago. Games "containing sound, voice, animation and
video on our personal computers" have been available on the Amiga
for some time, and versions of Deluxe Video, the original multimedia
construction set, have been on the market since 1986. The Amiga is
not a perfect machine, but it has been the obvious multimedia computer
since its introduction, and it still features a much greater range of
media tools, at better prices, than the limited selection belatedly
available on the Mac or PC (in)compatibles.
Jon Freeman
Creative Director
Free Fall Associates
Los Altos
"
Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]