{"id":83,"date":"2007-02-19T19:43:34","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T19:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalmediaphile.com\/2007\/02\/19\/Top+5+Reasons+Not+To+Trust+CNet+Reviews.aspx"},"modified":"2007-02-19T19:43:34","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T19:43:34","slug":"top-5-reasons-not-to-trust-cnet-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/2007\/02\/19\/top-5-reasons-not-to-trust-cnet-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Reasons Not to Trust C|Net Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw C|Nets &#8220;Top 5 Reasons not to Buy Vista&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>This seems to be yet another clueless drone talking head with really no credibility.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, why don&#8217;t I trust C|Net reviews?<\/p>\n<p>1. They are unabashedly anti-Microsoft<\/p>\n<p>2. Their reviewers have no technical skills<\/p>\n<p>3. They want to increase hits and their content is editorially slanted to achieve this<\/p>\n<p>4. They are unabashedly anti-Microsoft<\/p>\n<p>5. Do you really want to base your purchases on someone who only gives good reviews to advertisers products?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw C|Nets &#8220;Top 5 Reasons not to Buy Vista&#8221;. This seems to be yet another clueless drone talking head with really no credibility. &nbsp; So, why don&#8217;t I trust C|Net reviews? 1. They are unabashedly anti-Microsoft 2. Their reviewers have no technical skills 3. They want to increase hits and their content is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":""},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>I just saw C|Nets &#8220;Top 5 Reasons not to Buy Vista&#8221;. This seems to be yet another clueless drone talking head with really no credibility. &nbsp; So, why don&#8217;t I trust C|Net reviews? 1. They are unabashedly anti-Microsoft 2. Their reviewers have no technical skills 3. They want to increase hits and their content is editorially slanted to achieve this 4. They are unabashedly anti-Microsoft 5. Do you really want to base your purchases on someone who only gives good reviews to advertisers products?<\/p>\n","category_list":"Uncategorized","author_info":{"name":"Barb","url":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/author\/barb\/"},"comments_num":"1 comment","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pvFKI-1l","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}