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This guy is on one of the local TV stations here as the "tech reporter" -- he looks like he's in his forties or fifties, and every tech report he gives has a distinctly anti-Mac attitude to it... ranging from his refusing to say anything about Apple's products, to his knocking them in passing as he's talking about other stuff, to his actively promoting rival products. (For example, two recent reports have focussed on something to replace the iPod, and a competitor to iPhone.) It's really unprofessional.
I don't really care all THAT much about it (e.g., it doesn't affect me all that much), but at the same time, it's really giving the public who watches this station the wrong impression.
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If it's a call-in program, call and confront him. Otherwise write to the station's management about his views being so biased.
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JEBB, yeah, not surprisingly it's not a call-in.
I may write the station's management. It's not as if they couldn't find someone to replace this joker.
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I would def write in to the producers, (unless he is producing his own stuff) and try to point out how biased the reporting seems to be. How you want to know more about Apple products, how other stations seem to be doing that and how you might just never watch their program again.
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Hey, Peter, is that the "Technology Gumbo" guy on WWL?
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I remember that guy, I think. I would often watch the WWL news but would click off if I saw either his face or Frank Davis.
You're not going to change his mind, his opinion, or his reports. It's akin to trying to educate the guys who would work at CompUSA in Kenner on the Mac platform.
Y'know, a long time ago I was ejected from that store for correcting a salesperson. Years ago, he was telling a woman (who had owned an old Performa) who wanted an iMac that "Apple Macintosh" was going out of business, Microsoft had bought them a few years ago and was just working on easing "Apple Macintosh" users into Windows before they shut them down. While I was telling the woman about the return of Steve Jobs and the health of the company, the sales kid went and got the manager and he politely asked me to leave the store.
That said, the guy @ channel 4 is the same kind of person. Forget educating him; you might as well try to make a left turn on Tulane.
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Some people take pride in being contrary. His way of being a rebel maybe, since it seems Apple has gotten a fair amount of positive press elsewhere.
Write the producer and let them know of *inaccuracies* if your hear any specific ones, and explain that you are concerned about the integrity of their reporting on facts, if this individual seems to take liberties with the ones he provides about Apple products.
