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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:00 AM

Why Apple fans hate tech reporters

On hot-button issues -- the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or the Mac-PC divide -- we're quick to see bias in even the most objective news.
By Farhad Manjoo

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  • Monday, March 17, 2008 07:25 PM

    must be great to shill for yourself and get paid for it...

    The book argues that new communications technologies are loosening the culture's grip on what people once called "objective reality."

    Perhaps corporate influence of the media accounts for the bias that some people perceive in the manufactured dreck that passes for "the culture" today.

    Case in point: yesterday's 9/11 article and today's Apple article - two subjects guaranteed to generate page hits and revenue for Salon.com - and if you're Slashdotted, who knows? Perhaps an uptick in book sales and a quarterly bonus ...

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