RE: Re: Alpha central to 64-bit plans -- MIDRANGE-L

Ladies and gentleman,

Do not assume that reporters are fair and equal in their reporting.  Most all 
news is filtered through their own agenda.  Yes, you can contact them and try 
to change their ways, and sometimes public opinion counts.  However if they 
deem you as not part of their target audience, or if they are really blinded to 
their own viewpoints, then oftentimes even that won't matter.

When contacting them it is important to remain professional.  They cannot 
detect your tone of voice in a letter.  What I am saying is that a comment that 
would be taken lightly in a conversation may be wrongly taken as the start of a 
flame war.

Good luck.




bmegenity@ruskin.com on 06/22/98 10:52:54 AM
Please respond to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com@Internet
To:     midrange-l@midrange.com@Internet
cc:     David_Pendery@infoworld.com@Internet 
Subject:        RE: Re: Alpha central to 64-bit plans

Excuse me, but I seem to be missing something here. This guy writes a   
news column, right? Is he saying that all he writes about are things that   
someone else has determined are newsworthy? Who is this guru and where   
can we write to him? I thought that if things were in the news, it was   
because of information that we, the public, needed to know. At least this   
is what the media claims as the reason for their sometimes intrusive   
behavior.
So, here we are, the segment of his reading audience that has information   
that we feel the rest of the world needs to know, and he refuses to   
listen, much less to forward what we are saying to the rest of the world.   
>From whom does he take direction, the CEO's or PIO's of the world. They   
only make the things, we have to use them and make them productive. How   
does being users of the equipment make us unreliable as a source of   
information? I should think that it would be just the opposite.
Sorry for the soapbox. Thanks for listening.

Bill Megenity  bmegenity@ruskin.com


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From:  peteh@inwave.com
Sent:  Saturday, June 20, 1998 10:12 PM
To:  midrange-l@midrange.com
Cc:  David_Pendery@infoworld.com
Subject:  Fwd: Re: Alpha central to 64-bit plans

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I sent a brief note to David last night. It had a congenial tone and was   
not
inflammatory in any way. I copied his editor too. His reply seems just a   
tad
defensive...

Pete

>X-Lotus-FromDomain: IWP
>From: "David Pendery" <David_Pendery@infoworld.com>
>To: Pete Hall <peteh@inwave.com>
>Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 15:06:26 -0400
>Subject: Re: Alpha central to 64-bit plans
>
>Pete,
>You all are members of some IBM AS400 newsgroup or users group, right?
>
>You all completely missed the point, and seem to have no idea what
>reporting news is about. I am NOT a public relations professional. I   
have
>no responsibility to report about products that were not in the news on   
my
>beat last week. Compaq and DEC, in case you didn't realize, were in the
>news.
>
>If, as you all righteously and fervently believe, I am obligatedto   
report
>on IBM's godlike 64-bit capabilities,even though they were not in the   
news
>last week, then should I not also include in my story SGI's, Sun's,   
HP's,
>and every other Tom, Dick and Harry who has a 64-bit server, OS or PCI
>card?
>And yet, I did not deluged with indignant email from any of these   
others.
>Hmmm. Sorry guys, you tipped your hand and blew your credibility.
>
>David Pendery
>
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