Sony in a Corner? Only with Sloppy Reporting!
Here’s another example of the media’s bias against Sony. They want to write an article about the HD-DVD vs Blu-ray format war. What’s the first line?
Sony risks seeing another flagship product falling the way of its ill-fated Betamax video format after two technology powerhouses backed a rival’s vision for the next generation of DVD.
Then it goes on to talk about Intel and Microsoft, blah blah blah. Never mind that Sun, Apple, Dell, and HP have all backed Blu-ray. But okay, I can handle that.
But then, to back up his claims of Sony being on its back foot, Mr. Blakely says that Matsushita and Samsung have already backed Toshiba. Whaaaa????? Matsushita is firmly in the Blu-ray camp! And Samsung is also in the Blu-ray camp, though it’s thinking about double-dipping into the HD-DVD as well. So both Matsushita and Samsung back Blu-ray, and Mr. Blakely is using them as examples of companies arrayed against Sony! I can’t believe it…
And that’s not all!
When listing the studios backing HD-DVD, Mr. Blakely mentions Paramount, Universal, and Warner Brothers. When listing the studios backing Blu-ray, he mentions Walt Disney and Sony Pictures. See something missing there? What about Lions Gate and Fox?
Does anyone else think this guy is just a bit biased?
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September 28th, 2005 at 1:57 pm
Mr. Blakely could be biased, or he could have just been hard up for a “hook”. As someone who writes every day, I know how hard it is to pump out an article on the same news everyone else is covering without introducing some kind of controversy or tension in the first line.
Mr. Blakely chose to make the threat of failure and a comparison to Betamax his hook. Unfortunately, he decided to pick and choose facts that propped his hook up.
September 28th, 2005 at 2:03 pm
I dunno. I’m a Blu-ray backer (duh!) so I know my posts are biased towards Blu-ray. But I never lie and say it’s a fact. That’s that Mr. Blakely did when he said that Matsushita was in HD-DVD’s camp.
October 3rd, 2005 at 12:24 am
Tracking back it appears that Mr. Blakeley has revised the article. There is no mention of Matsushita or Samsung suporting HD-DVD.
October 3rd, 2005 at 8:34 am
Interesting! I wonder if he noticed my blog entry. He could at least have noted that the article was modified from the original.