Of mice and mole rats
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MacEdition had the whole Mac-the-Knife gimmick wrapped up, until the former MacWEEK boss (sorry name escapes me) spilled the beans that Mac-the-Knife was an amalgam character built out of genuine rumors fed into the grapevine and refined by SEVERAL "Editors" at MacWEEK into the ephemeral openly gay Deep Throat of the Mac universe (okay bad choice of words).
And since the "real" Mac-the-Knife was not a single person, how could MacEdition be forced to come clean with the fact that they are simply aping MacWEEK's former resident rumorogical utensil concept to garner more hits on their out of the way web site with very infrequent updates.
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Lol... I'll bet you believe that the Weekly World News second-sources _all_ their articles, too.
BTW - the editor's name you fail to remember is Stephen Beale - the _last_ editor of MacWEEK.com, who would have a vested interest in presenting a, um, creative recollection of the history of rumorology in the Mac environ.
Don't believe everything you read (including this post - if you really care about the topic, do some digging. The truth is out there.)
And as far as being an "out of the way" website? Perhaps... but we don't just post schlock to see our hit numbers go up. If you'd bother to read the editorial statement, you'd see that we'd rather not post anything if we don't have anything worth reading (in our opinion, of course).
You know that old saying, pooly paraphrased here, about "keeping your mouth shut and being thought a fool rather than opening it and removing all doubt"?
Is The Gay Blade worth reading? Many people think so. Is TGB the same as MTK? Many people think so. The readers have to decide for themselves.
-porruka, Editor-in-chief, MacEdition
porruka@macedition.com
http://www.macedition.com