Kudos to PC World

Posted: May 07, 2007 by Jeremy Greenfield Filed under: Uncategorized Permalink

I caught up with Bob Carrigan (CEO of IDG) at the ABM spring meeting in

Naples. First thing he said to me after a long, awkward pause (probably initiated by me), was to go to PCWorld.com to see the story. “The story” is the story at the center of the controversy of Harry McCracken’s resignation (see blog post below).

 

Well, kudos to PC World for finally publishing this story. It’s just too bad that Harry McCracken, an asset to IDG at the very least, had to leave over it.

 

Maybe he’ll come back?

 

Carrigan doesn’t know and prudently won’t comment. But, as of now, he’s still resigned.

One Question

The piece on PC World (see it here) has two pieces: “10 Things I Hate about Apple” and “10 Things I Love about Apple.” Was that second story part of the original editorial package? Was it part of some sort of compromise? I hadn’t heard anything about it during the initial dustup. Anyone who has the answers to this, feel free to comment, or, if you’d like to remain anonymous, email me: jgreenfield@accessintel.com.

Update

Just heard from McCracken.  Apparently both stories were prepared at the same time, but when the “Hate” story was axed, it didn’t make sense to publish the “Love” story.