The Verge Hires Writer Who Quit CNET in Protest

Post by nextparadigms » Mon, Feb 04, 2013, 11:55 AM UTC

siamore wrote: post #11

swang wrote: post #7

I enjoy reading The Verge but I don't believe that they're any less vulnerable to advertising influences than CNET/CBS. Their gaming site Polygon ran afoul of this http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=497693 http://www.polygon.com/2012/10/30/3575978/halo-4-avatar-cost... Essentially one of their first "articles" was just a copy/pasted press release from Pizza Hut for Halo 4. When people began calling them out…

I used to read The Verge and i don't think I've ever seen many articles or reviews related to Microsoft shown in good light, for example even when most other sites reported Gmail active sync support being dropped as a bad move, The Verge reported that as Microsoft not supporting open standards (which was true) and in the review of the Nokia Lumia 920 the camera was rated the same as an iPad camera with the reasoning…

Post by siamore » Mon, Feb 04, 2013, 1:05 PM UTC

nextparadigms wrote: post #12

siamore wrote: post #11

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I used to read The Verge and i don't think I've ever seen many articles or reviews related to Microsoft shown in good light, for example even when most other sites reported Gmail active sync support being dropped as a bad move, The Verge reported that as Microsoft not supporting open standards (which was true) and in the review of the Nokia Lumia 920 the camera was rated the same as an iPad camera with the reasoning…

You mean except the most important review of them all - the Windows 8 review, which got an 8.8 score, and was written by a guy who used to write Microsoft-related articles? The Lumia and Surface RT reviews which were written by Joshua himself were far more objective and fair, because he was ultimately right about them. Look how many people are returning the Surface now, unsatisfied with their experience with it (more…