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In article <1992Aug25.160634.24548@socrates.umd.edu>, jon@socrates.umd.edu (Jonathan Kruger) writes...
>Well, now they've merged and you're starting your stack of
>_Digital_News_and_Review_, and, like _Digital_Review_, it's printed on
>the same glossy non-recyclable paper!  

Digital News and Digital Review did not merge.  Digital Review's parent
company and Digital News' parent company both knew that there was only room
for one publication in this market.  It was only a matter of time before
one or the other went bankrupt.  Given this knowledge, Digital Review's
parent company offered Digital News' parent company a large sum of money to
stop publishing Digital News.  In return, Digital Review received the
rights to the Digital News name, some other information-based assets, and
the subscriber list.  

Neither of the two staffs knew anything about what was going on until it
was announced; as wholly owned subsidiaries of publishing giants, their
opinions weren't much in demand. 

Digital Review's parent company did not buy the staff or expertise of
Digital News.  I believe that both staffs are reasonably unhappy with the
situation: the Digital News staff because they're now scrambling for jobs
or are unemployed; the Digital Review staff because they aren't being given
additional resources, despite their new responsibility to cover Digital
News' niches as well. 

In any case, best way to think of this is that Digital Review has changed
its name, and Digital News is now out of business.  (and that I'm looking
for a job...)

jms

Joel M Snyder, 1103 E Spring Street, Tucson, AZ, 85719 
Phone: 602.882.4094 (voice) .4095 (FAX) .4093 (data)
BITNET: jms@Arizona  Internet: jms@arizona.edu  SPAN: 47541::telcom::jms
DIDI...  is that a MARTIAN name, or, are we in ISRAEL?