Macs not used in the newspaper industry? Somebody should tell the Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Ocean County College officials have said that one of the reasons Prof. Bosley's contract as Viking News adviser was not renewed is because of her use of Macintosh computers in the news office. The administration's stance is that the Macs should be replaced by Windows-based computers because, as OCC Director of Student Media Joe Adelizzi says, "the prevailing standard at newspapers nationwide is a P.C.-based system."

Maybe Mr. Adelizzi and the rest of the clueless members of the OCC administration should take a look at an article on Apple's Web site that describes how the operations of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution are powered by Macintosh computers and servers.

Don Morris, manager of publishing technology at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for 33 years (so I assume he's more of an expert in these matters than a hack writer like Mr. Adelizzi), has this to say about the newspaper's production of three daily print editions — a process handled by 850 Macs and 38 Apple Xserve G5 servers, running Adobe InDesign and InCopy as part of a DTI editorial pagination system:

“We’re a Mac shop here, from editorial to advertising...we chose Mac in the early ’90s, and we’ve been very happy with it ever since...

...The new system has met every single one of our needs. It’s easily able to keep up with our heavy page flow demand. It’s very fast, very reliable, with minimal if any manual intervention. Our error rates are so low they’re almost negligible. We’re now pretty much on target every morning with everything we’re expected to deliver.

So I urge the Viking News staff members to stand by their Macs!

(Photo: A Mac-based publishing system keeps the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's presses running smoothly.)