N is for the young and stupid, where n = array("love", "war", "software")

If you were going to ding the NYT for tech coverage, how do you fail to mention that the person (Pogue) they hire to review also writes manuals for that product? So, he has multiple conflicts of interest: he needs to remain friendly with the buggy software makers (Microsoft) to get access and he wants to sell his books on how to use the buggy software.

[Full disclosure: the above paragraph was written in 2007.]

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