On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, ScottGee1 wrote:
>
> I'm really impressed with dpreview. Phil started small and has built
> it into a force with which everyone in the business has to reckon.
> His willingness to (seemingly) fully disclose his observations has a
> lot to do with that success. Doubt he could have accomplished it if
> he has to rely on traditional, magazine type advertising revenue. His
> stats show the site gets millions of visitors each month. Year over
> year increase for December was +5M!!
Dpreview may be better than the "reviews" published in the large magazines,
but the content on dpreview is still far from being unbiased. Remember,
they're a business just like any other media outlet. The site needs money
(and likely lots of it) to keep it going and advertising pays for most of it.
It's obvious from the censorship of the forum content and the banning of
posters that they clearly don't want alternative views to be present on the
site. It's their site so they're free to do that but it sure makes their
content look biased to me.
-mark
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