Raspberry Pi in the Toronto Sun.

[Ted]

On 03/13/2012 10:18 PM, sciguy-Ja3L+HSX0kI at public.gmane.org wrote:
> 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.
Which is made very odd by the fact that  Peter Worthington
is wiser then all the other Canadian Journalist put together x 10,
but, yes it does have a lot of Stereo and Tv adds :)
It is an odd home for Pete (even more odd, he co-founded the thing!)

-tl


> 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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