without the endearing characteristics? and also without Jerry's actual accomplishments in other fields.

I wonder if.. overall journalistic performance of the general press - re computers - is really any less ept than it is about say, medicine, law, politics.

Maybe this guy (and much of what IW became) just seems more egregious because so much about these machines is 'factual' in nature and logical in operation. The other topics aren't nearly so cut & dried - so the weaseling of opinion pieces isn't so glaring obvious (?)

Nobody seems to have an angle on how you might turn a writer into an also techno-adept.. yet it seems about as hard to turn a techno-ept person into an also good writer (and esp. editor!) of English.

Still, lots of zIWE posts are quite literate and.. it's getting job-scarce out there: mightn't a few z-folk consider moving out of the control room and over to a wordprocessor? Should be able to bell a Katz with one hand tied to the ALT key.


Just a passing thought..

Ashton