The Real Deal: Episode 88 is up - Reviews

The state of reviews due to.... "enthusiastic users"

In reply to: Episode 88 is up - Reviews by acedtect 

Sorry I'm late with this question but I'd love to hear your point of view on the state of reviews due to "enthusiastic users". In particular I'm talking about Mac users and how they've bullied their way into changing the way both the media talks. Even on BOL you see this trend of preempting every negative comment with something positive in order to have "permission" to tell the truth. Is that really journalism?

Reviews are become less and less trustworthy because fear or fanboying is restructuring how people talk. And while it makes the cheerleaders happy, it does absolutely nothing for the average consumer that looks to reviews to tilt their buying decisions.

Just a few sidenotes:

-"Mossberg reviews the Gateway One, accidentally reviews the iMac again"
That was Engadgets brilliant description of Mossbergs Dell XPS One review where he mentioned the iMac 3x more than he mentioned the product he was "reviewing". That's not a review, it's a salespitch.

-Tom mentioned the "one button mouse" and despite single button Macbooks being the top selling computer for Apple then he still got tons of angry and hate-filled responses for not being 100% accurate.

-Molly has said many times how she is restraining her opinion to avoid the wrath of the fanboys. That's great for her but sometimes the truth doesn't need to be sugarcoated