[Am-info] CIO magazine and the truth?

[John J. Urbaniak]

Magazine refuses to run PAID advertising containing report that
criticized Microsoft.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A2328-2003Sep25?language=printer

Microsoft Critic Forced Out
Firm Does Business With Software Giant

By Jonathan Krim
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 26, 2003; Page E01

.... excerpt.....
But those efforts were somewhat thwarted yesterday when a national
technology magazine rejected the group's request to distribute copies of

the report to its subscribers.

The magazine, CIO (short for chief information officers), routinely
"rents" its subscriber lists -- for a fee -- to firms wanting to
distribute targeted advertising and marketing messages to its audience
of executives responsible for running corporate and government computer
systems.

After receiving the report so that it could be e-mailed to the
subscriber list, the magazine informed CCIA representatives that the
paper was "too sensitive" and turned away the business.