Mike Magee to leave The Inquirer

[Capper]

Mike Magee, who founded two of the cheekiest-yet-influential technology news sites ever to grace the Internet, plans to leave The Inquirer in February.
If you're not in the chip industry, or if you've never written about it, you might not know Magee. But Intel and AMD executives, all the way to the top, are all too familiar with his work covering their industries over the past decade in classic British tabloid style. Magee confirmed his plans to leave via e-mail, saying he wanted "to try something a little different."
Both The Inquirer and The Register, Magee's original publication, carved out a space for themselves on the Web against the entrenched trade industry players way back before blogging was the Next Big Thing. They are required reading for hardware executives and reporters, both for the stories they generate and the biting wit they bring to a very buttoned-down industry.
Good luck to Mike in whatever comes next down the road, which will likely involve a pint and a smoke along the way. He's our combination of Hunter Thompson and Bob Woodward.

Mike Magee to leave The Inquirer

[screwballl]

big whoop... maybe now they will post stories with truth and factual events instead of "heard it through the grapevine" crap. I never liked either of those news outlets

[Capper]

Thats what their business is. As you learn more about the industry, you are going to realize that company reps do not talk to you directly, everything goes through marketing......so I guess it can be said that on one hand you have the INQ and Register, who get news from sources within the companies (usually people who speak anonymously), or you can believe the company marketing machines.

I'll also say that the INQ is dead on as often as they are wrong.

[One4yu2c]

Originally Posted by Capper

That's what their business is.

Truth. Anything on the internet requires a bit of analysis on the part of the reader, and I like that most of TheInq's stories include links to the original source(s), ultimately leaving it up to the reader to judge a story's credibility. I've also found them good about posting updates when a story does turn out to false.