On Tue 22 Dec, Jarvis, Robert P. wrote:
Journalists... <sigh> What I find especially aggravating - perhaps even chilling - is the last line of the article... "Sounds to me like a better Java". Eeek.
Interesting - that's the bit I found oddly reassuring. It's certainly a good sales pitch in todays world... 'Oh yeah, we do that - but we do this as well, and have done for a long time. Like java but better'. I've learnt again and again how difficult it is to get anything satisfactory into any magazine; a case in point was the first time a mag wrote about my motorcycle building projects. The journo asked me to jot down all the techy details myself 'so nothing inportant would get forgotten'. The article appeared with verbatim material from those notes wrapped in quotation marks as if I'd said them in an interview. Oddly enough, it didn't read at all well! It keeps happening and I keep hoping it'll get better.
It seems like the only way to get something you like is to reserve approval of the final copy (which is usually not possible). And even then...
-C
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