Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 18:27:48 06/06/01
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Chris: Yes, of course, some info too, but the degree of it depends of the issue, the importance it has, etc. Clearly Burgess does not think computer chess deserves some much attention and care with technical aspects of any kind more than that he offered. Besides he must think in what readers want to read. The journalist is not writting for an specific public, but for a mass public where all kind of expertisse or lack of it pay the cent to get the newspaper. Average reader gives a shit about chess computers and so if you ever are going to interest him about something of this field, it will be trough the sort of thing Burgess wrote. I would consider Burgess not a talented man, as clearly he is, but a pedant and an idiot if he ever was going to write about hash tables to that public. In fact, that's the kind of mistakes beginners journalist makes: they try to "teach"; they try to deliver too much. So they bore everybody but himself and two geeks. So a last point: journalism is not about writting about what you really know, but to write to people that does not know and have no reasons to know. So you give them the little drop you can and you have. What else? Fernando
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