Comments on: Opinion: Pure Sensationalism at its Murky Best

By: Nexus

Nexus — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:50:21 +0000

and it’s what Paul, Mary Jo, Rafael, Neowin, WinVistaClub, WinFuture, TheVista.ru, etc. all aim for.

No love for Long there I see

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:24:22 +0000

That’s what everyone has been doing for the past year or so. I think what set off this rash of posts by Paul, Bryant, etc. was that Randall took his own ego too far.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:14:25 +0000

I’m wondering what’s the point of all this, i mean.. shouldn’t we ignore it and go on with our daily stuff?

By: Swift

Swift — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:21:26 +0000

If he loves to joke around so much; then you and him should be spin-doctors. Besides the fact that you give ‘journalism’, a bad name.

By: Chris123NT

Chris123NT — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:37:51 +0000

Wow Galen, just WOW. If that post was a joke, then everything Randall does in life must be a joke, because judging by his posts, noone should ever take the time to listen to him. All he does is whine and try to give Microsoft bad press, and then whines some more when he gets booted from a pre-conference workshop. And if he was indeed invited, it was probably a mistake, Microsoft would never entertain someone who cries as much as Randall does.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:22:20 +0000

You don’t cover up a poorly written and unsourced article by asking your boss to say it was a joke. Shame on you for not coming clean on abusing sensational journalism.

By: EnricoG

EnricoG — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:51:12 +0000

Mr. Gruman, over here in Italy we say “la toppa e’ peggio del buco” literally it means “the patch is worst than the hole” meaning that your explanation is even worst than the original Randall’s post.
Should we acknowledge as a joke also the “Windows 7 unmasked” post that still seats on the home page of Infoworld? I hope so, otherwise the joke paradigm should be applied to the entire Infoworld editorial line.

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Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:00:37 +0000

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By: Maresh

Maresh — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:11:15 +0000

Sorry, I don’t really believe it was a “joke.” I think that sounds like an executive editor who’s searching for the corner where the paint didn’t spill.