“In a surprise announcement, Robert Carrigan, president of IDG Communications, told PC World’s staff today that ‘Harry McCracken has decided to remain with PC World as vice-president, editor in chief,'” Ramon G. McLeod reports for PC World.
“‘[CEO] Colin Crawford will be rejoining the IDG management team as executive vice president, online. In this role, he will be responsible for driving IDG’s online strategy and initiatives in support of our Web-centric business focus,’ Carrigan said. ‘We will conduct a search for a new CEO to lead PC World and Macworld,'” McLeod reports.
McLeod reports, “McCracken tendered his resignation on April 30 after Crawford refused to allow publication of a story entitled ’10 Things We Hate About Apple.’ McCracken said that the story was killed (it is now running on PCWorld.com) because of Crawford’s concerns about the impact it would have on Apple advertising. Crawford denied that was the reason for killing the story, but has since apologized to the editorial staff for the decision.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: What an overblown load of horse excrement! Just how much mileage is IDG planning to generate from this non-story, anyway? As if we needed another reason not to read PCWorld.
We post this only as a followup to the original story and continue to hope this puts an end to PCWorld‘s Dvorakian quest for hits. Please see our related articles below.
So, all is right with the PCWorld again, now that Crawford’s been reassigned and Harry McCracken is back. Yawn. Oh, nope, no word yet on Phil.
Related articles:
PC World publishes insipid 10 things we love/hate about Apple lists – May 07, 2007
PC World editor quits over Apple story – May 03, 2007
A complete non-story. Let us never speak of it again.
Yea! This is so awesome! I am so totally excited about… what’s his name returning to… wait, what was I excited about?
hmmm… maybe I should lay off the meth before reading MDN…
Then again, without the meth, how would I get excited reading shit like this?
Even for a crappy list based article it was pretty crappy.
The deplorable melodrama (aka PC World), writes another chapter in conspicuous irrelevance.
Hey MDN, I got the Phil joke
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Dammit MDN beat me to the Phil joke
sounds like Crawford blew his chance to be the big guy.
I want my 35 seconds back.
Dear MDN,
If this “story” is worthless, why on earth are you publicizing it?
Sincerely,
“sounds like Crawford blew his chance to be the big guy.”
And evidently, Mr. Chance wasn’t very impressed with the blow.
That must be a blow to the ego too.
Apple stock thanks you PC World. Don’t leave your day job to write Soap Operas, where are the tears and drama.
“another chapter in conspicuous irrelevance”
It’s usually very quiet in the Lame Duck Department at IDG.
Mr. Reeee,
What part of “We post this only as a followup to the original story…” didn’t you understand?
MDN is practicing the age-old art of criticizing another party by illuminating the preposterousness of the characters involved.In other words, MDN attempts to look smart and sophisticated by pointing out the flaws and foibles of other people.
only because they’ve found all of the toys he threw out the pram
i can just imagine the scene now
“wahhhhh they won’t print my story WAHHhhhhh not enough depth”
I would have never heard about this story if it weren´t for MDN.
Thank you MDN for giving them more mileage for their “overblown load of horse excrement”.
Question #5: Please use Harry McCracken in a sentence:
Big time scumbags… Boycott their publications.
I could’ve sworn his name was Phil…
Publications shouldn’t kiss the asses of their advertisers. If it’s a bad product, review it as such. It IS more difficult if you’re a Mac mag and there’s only 1 producer of the product.
I just want to focus on my salad.
New saying around personnel departments
“I thought Jones quit”
“Naw, he kissed back end to get in like McCracken”
“…and continue to hope this puts an end to PC World’s Dvorakian quest for hits.”
They just hired back the guy who quit over integrity issues regarding publishing two lazy, “phone it in” articles. In fact, we’ve seen the articles and can confirm they are absolute crap. This is the guy PC World hires back? Great. This won’t end their Dvorakian quest for hits, it guarantees they will continue. Clearly, that’s what they brought him back for.
Meanwhile, the guy who didn’t want the fluff published? Well, let’s re-assign him so THAT won’t happen again. Amazing.
MS folks are eating this up. Hell, Paul Thurrott has practically wet himself over it. Why? Apparently because they perceive McCracken as a paragon of virtue (after all, he’s been at PC World for 12 years) and Crawford as some sort of Steve Jobs-controlled drone (after all, he was at Mac World). I’m amazed at how the MS folks don’t understand that they will get plenty of lazy reporting about the PC as well. I guess they just like lazy reporting.
If this is a non story, you should not have even wasted your time writing it up or telling anyone about it. Who the heck cares if this guy is working for them again or not? Can’t you folks think of anything better to do. While I’m venting, enough with the “more blood on iPod click wheel” nonsense. Please do yourselves and us a favor and think up a new title for items of this nature. End of rant.
Thanks.