Hi,

In message , Jim Lesurf
writes

I fear it is 'dumbing down'. The impression is that they have decided their
readers are too dim to understand, and they can't be bothered to even try
and explain.

I think that "dumbing down" is right; however it may not be only the
reader that is 'too dim to understand'. I deal almost daily with
journalists associated with the PC press and I increasingly find that 1.
Few of them have any training as journalists and 2. Even fewer have any
real grasp of engineering. I have refused to submit several products for
review, simply because after talking with the reviewer, I found that
they did not have the technical know-how to produce a valid, meaningful
review. I get the impression that at least some of the audio press is
similar.

Easier to say, "I am an expert and X is better than Y, so
there."

Exactly; and provided they are sufficiently vague (i.e. they don't tell
any provable lies), many readers will not question their conclusions.

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Regards,
Glenn Booth