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here's the letter i sent off the Australian:

To:jhorey@ozemail.com.au
cc:
Subject:honest journalism?
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I am writing in reference to an article in the Australian on 30 May, "Where
Gates went wrong."  The information I have about this article is second hand,
from the USENET newsgroup aus.comp.os2 so if the facts I have are incorrect, I
apologize.

According to the person who wrote to USENET, a quote from a Mr. Joachim Kempin
was quoted as saying "There are difficulties in finding native applications for 
OS/2... and Warp is, in fact, a fairly thin layer on top of Windows".  

To call this "untrue" is an understatement.  Even calling it "an outright lie"
doesn't do it justice.  While you are protected by the fact that you simply
quoted what someone else said, if you have taken it at face value, what can you
expect of your readers?  I stopped reading the Sydney Morning Herald's computer
section because articles like this drove me nuts.  I stopped reading the
Australian's computer section a bit later for the same reason.  I see nothing
has changed to make me want to go back.

I realize that people who report on computer issues can not be experts in the
field, but I do not think it too much to ask that they at least have some
familiarity with the area in which they report.

Sincerely,

Mark Krischer