Raspberry Pi in the Toronto Sun.

sciguy-Ja3L+HSX0kI at public.gmane.org sciguy-Ja3L+HSX0kI at public.gmane.org
Wed Mar 14 02:18:20 UTC 2012


I don't think anyone has ever accused the Sun as being anything above 
an advertising flyer with news in it. To say the Sun has an "ugly 
attitude" is like saying the Pope is Catholic. You just expect it, and 
make a point to buy yourself either the Star or the Globe, end of 
story. This is why they've gone out of business multiple times and have 
stuck to their same failed "ugly attitude" business model, thinking 
it's going to sell. I just don't take them seriously, and I don't think 
most people do either.

Paul King

On 12 Mar 2012 at 23:03, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:

> | From: Colin McGregor <colin.mc151-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
> 
> | Here is the Toronto Sun's take on the Raspberry Pi (nicely done) :
> | http://www.torontosun.com/2012/03/12/huge-demand-for-credit-card-sized-computer
> 
> Not the Sun's take, Reuters':
>   <http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/12/raspberrypi-idUSL5E8E76IC20120312>
> Told from a British perspective: the two distributors are British.
> 
> But I went to the Sun site and looked around.  Boy does that paper
> have an ugly attitude.  Only its readers' comments are uglier.
> 
> - Jann Arden got kicked off a train at Oshawa, part way through a
>   trip, tweets that she was let off "in the middle of nowhere", and
>   gets really ragged for that comment.  I'd have called it "the middle
>   of nowhere" too in the context of leaving Toronto for an Ottawa
>   concert and being dropped in Oshawa.
>     <http://www.torontosun.com/2012/03/12/arden-ruffles-feathers-in-oshawa>
> 
> - The Liberal candidate in Guelph used robocalls to discredit the
>   conservative candidate.  This is equated to the calls that
>   misdirected voters to the wrong poling stations.  Hardly -- they
>   failed to point out that the Liberal candidate's calls were factual:
>   about the Conservative candidate's position on abortion.
> 
>   From another source (not the Sun), I've heard that the Liberal
>   candidate's calls did violate the Election in that they did not
>   clearly say that they were authorized by the Liberal candidate.
> 
>   A pathetic article
>     <http://www.torontosun.com/2012/03/12/liberals-admit-to-voters-calls-demand-royal-commission-probe>
> 
> - A very contemptuous article about "a legal application to remove
>   Toronto Mayor Rob Ford from office".  So contemptuous that it was
>   hard to tell what the issue is.
> 
>   <http://www.torontosun.com/2012/03/12/levy-left-desperate-in-targeting-ford>
> 
> These were just the first three "Top Stories" with headlines that
> interested me.
> 
> Interestingly, the RaspberryPI article was much more pleasant than the
> others.
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