I was parousing driverheaven.net this morning when I stumbled upon a link to an article on TheEnquirer.net reviewing hardware sites. I was intrigued as I was pretty certain the folks at the enquirer are way out of their league doing this and wasn't let down.
The review was utter crap. At the end there was a link to "flame the editor" and seeing as I had a couple extra minutes at hand I decided to go for it, just for fun.
Here is the original article
This is the email I sent (thought I'd share with you guys):
Subject: Nice Article...
"...NOT
I'm not even sure what compelled me to venture so deep into the world of journalism so bad it makes tabloids seem like Shakespeare. Surely enough though I stumbled upon your recent article "reviewing" hardware sites. I'm not quite sure what baffled me the most: the rampant and undesguised bias (for instance, stating someone ignoring you as a motive for not liking his site), the thorough lack of detail (not more than a poorly strung-together paragraph for each site) or the sheer and boundless ignorance presented in your article. Perhaps one of the more amusing parts of the 2 minute read was the blatant hypocrisy in criticizing some of these sites' designs when, in fact, compared to The Inquirer's slipshod excuse for a website, almost all of the hardware sites are brilliantly designed.
Perhaps, if you spent more time researching your material and thoroughly reading through the sites, it might have been possible to produce a, how do i put this, "not-a-retarded-piece-of-crap article". All this being said, keep up the good work."
Alex Weber
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It's not a long read, I hope you guys enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it!
peace!
The review was utter crap. At the end there was a link to "flame the editor" and seeing as I had a couple extra minutes at hand I decided to go for it, just for fun.
Here is the original article
This is the email I sent (thought I'd share with you guys):
Subject: Nice Article...
"...NOT
I'm not even sure what compelled me to venture so deep into the world of journalism so bad it makes tabloids seem like Shakespeare. Surely enough though I stumbled upon your recent article "reviewing" hardware sites. I'm not quite sure what baffled me the most: the rampant and undesguised bias (for instance, stating someone ignoring you as a motive for not liking his site), the thorough lack of detail (not more than a poorly strung-together paragraph for each site) or the sheer and boundless ignorance presented in your article. Perhaps one of the more amusing parts of the 2 minute read was the blatant hypocrisy in criticizing some of these sites' designs when, in fact, compared to The Inquirer's slipshod excuse for a website, almost all of the hardware sites are brilliantly designed.
Perhaps, if you spent more time researching your material and thoroughly reading through the sites, it might have been possible to produce a, how do i put this, "not-a-retarded-piece-of-crap article". All this being said, keep up the good work."
Alex Weber
--
It's not a long read, I hope you guys enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it!
peace!
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