[Rant] "Season's Greetings from Amiga HQ": Hm? | ANN.lu |
Posted on 25-Dec-2002 12:19 GMT by P E | 220 comments View flat View list |
Over at amiga.org, the signature "takemehomegrandma" has published a somewhat satirical post - for your enjoyment, here goes:
I want to apologize that the AmigaOne has still not been released (A1 mobos+OS4). I also want to apologize to our competing companies that we have accused for crimes in public without being able to back those accusations up with either proof or legal action. I also want to apologize for not keeping our promises to you developers who bought our expensive SDK's. I also want to apologize to the users who bought our coupons, ehrm, JOINED OUR CLUB, but has not been given anything of the promised. I also want to apologize for the confusion when our offices suddenly were empty and our phones went dead (but that was a result of hackers, remember). Amiga Inc is truly a global 24 hours a day company and the future looks brighter than ever for our beloved AMIGA. We are pleased to announce a Games Pocket Pack to our friends Micro$ofts Pocket PC. This truly shows what a great commitment our 3000 content developers has to our beloved AMIGA. Wonderful things are about to happen as allways. Thank you, as allways, for your support. Keep the AMIGA spirit, and remember to follow our trademark wherever we go. We are AMIGA. You are AMIGA (if you pay us 50 bucks). We will be back with more exciting announcements during the next weeks. See you then! /Yours McBill
Well, there you go. Merry christmas!
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"Season's Greetings from Amiga HQ": Hm? : Comment 110 of 220 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Christian Kemp on 26-Dec-2002 20:02 GMT | In reply to Comment 109 (MarkTime): I agree to some extent, but this is neither the 7 o'clock news, nor are there any paid journalists here. As such, there's no way I'm going to feature a "report" from a person I never met, never heard of, and have no possibility to verify his own integrity; whose only aim seems to be to follow someone on what looks like a personal vendetta and wait until there is any opportunity to take a picture that would confirm some accusation that might not even be true in the first place.
Merlancia might not be everything they claim(ed) to be, but then again there is no way I will support the kind of "investigative journalism" that was used to get the point across. If that's what "news" is supposed to be, then I might not be the right man for the job, and ANN might not be the right site for me to run. I think that over the years, I found a news style I am comfortable with, even though I don't always agree with all the postings that make it to the front page; but clearly, I'm need to draw a line somewhere, and that Merlancia news item was crossing it by quite a bit. |
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