Categories: OLD Media Moves

Differing coverage of the Acer-Gateway deal

TheStreet.com’s Marek Fuchs writes Wednesday that the coverage of Acer’s proposed acquisition of Gateway was all over the map, from references to former Chinese leaders to former CEOs of other computer makers.

But The Wall Street Journal, wrote Fuchs, got it right.

Fuchs wrote, “They don’t indulge themselves with some lead that traces back 60 years or one, much worse, that throws wet kisses to the disgraced CEO of a company that wasn’t even involved.

“Instead, Jason Dean and Christopher Lawton take a step back and look at what the deal signifies for the PC market at large. In a dreadfully competitive market the world round, they say, the main thing is that size matters.

“‘The banding together of Taiwan-based personal-computer maker Acer Inc. and Gateway Inc. of the U.S. underlines how crucial scale is in the consolidating global personal-computer market, where margins are thin and competition is increasing,’ they say in their lead.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.