On Saturday 06 August 2005 21:40, Nikhil Marathe wrote:
Have you ever realized how TOI seems to favour Windows a lot. I am not just talking about ignoring Linux. Anything which is not Windows gets a small box while even the slightest news about Windows gets half a page. To qoute a recent example: In the Aug. 5, 2005 issue of Times International they have half a page for Windows Vista, and Another half a page in Mumbai Mirror. They say how it has coll new graphics with transparent titlebars. Hasn't KDE and X had it from atleast 6 months ago. When there is anything about IE like tabs in IE7 they had an article, but I have never seen any article about Netscape, Opera, Mozilla or Firefox. They never tell you that if you switched from Windows to another OS you could totally escape from viruses without having temporary updates. HCL released their Rs 9990 PC having FC3 or FC4. But all they mentioned was that it had a 'Linux-based OS'. No mention about why it is good, its features and better security? Isn't the press supposed to be impartial. Lots of other newspapers provide technology news not concerning Microsoft.
I shifted to Business Standard 3 months back (a month after Mumbai Mirror was introduced). Some stats of HCL sub 10,000/- PC - half page article. (They did not name the linux distro here, probably HCL did not inform media about it and media still is unaware that there are multiple distros of linux). New Microsoft CEO - 40 word article.
Tired of the monopolistic nature of TOI (Mumbai Mirror was a useless waste of paper - there is nothing different from the main TOI), I shifted to Business standard. I dont beleive the problem is with TOI. Its just to large to "get the facts".
Amish.