WSJ puffery

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Don’t expect objective reporting here.

Under its new ownership, the Wall Street Journal is redefining yellow journalism, seemingly perfected by W R Hearst in the ’30s.

Meaning, write what suits you politically and economically, and the heck with objective reporting of the facts. It makes the New York Times look like an arbiter of truth, which is saying something.

Today’s edition has a puff piece on the new Apple Tablet and how El Jobso is back and driving everyone to distraction with his attention to slim perfection at the expense of all else.

Well, I simply could not resist adding to the Comments section (link is probably available to subscribers only), with my own 2 cents worth – OK, $7,500 worth looking at the volume of Apple junk we have bricked. My opening sentence references Jobs’s oft quoted remark when asked why Apple will not make a cheap netbook:

I may have added a few months, maybe even a year, to the life of my 24″ iMac with all the work I have been forced to do to it, as described earlier, but when it fails you will see me going the Hackintosh route. And I don’t need any sanctimonious shill for the legal profession lecturing me on the legality of this – how can it be any less legal than selling devices under false pretenses (“It Just Works” as Apple advertises)? Thus my computer odyssey will have come full circle – a big well ventilated reliable PC box full of hardware running the best OS for the home and small business user out there.

Here’s an index to my recent spate of articles here on Apple’s awful hardware and let that be an end to it:

I am still committed to sharing temperature readings on my repaired/ventilated 24″ iMac with readers, and these can now be seen here.