JUST as Rupert Murdoch's Fox "News" is "fair and balanced" (it is currently under fire for potentially breaking US law), some development "news" sites pretend to be of general interest to all developers. One publisher in particular, 1105 Media, runs all sorts of apparent "government" and "virtualisation" sites that proclaims to deliver news when in fact they push Microsoft's agenda a lot of the time. As we showed before, the company is close to Microsoft and by pushing what seems like objective news into news archives and feeds it can easily give the impression that Microsoft makes business (and government) sense while the rest get ignored and sometimes ridiculed. Let's take one of their sites as an example. The site pretends to be about "Application Development Trends", but what it really covers is not trends; it covers Microsoft development, and even Mono which is an extension of that. This type of new example is troubling (part of a pattern) because it illustrates the effect of having the pro-Microsoft 'news' network painting itself as independent and unbiased while promoting .NET, trying to lure developers into Microsoft's walled gardens. Here is another new example from the same network/publisher, which is promoting Mono as usual, this time with Xamarin flavour. IDG does the same thing sometimes, but to a lesser extent. Who is that beneficial to? And why do we allow such sites to exist and thrive? Clearly enough there are some news sites which are pro-Linux but they do not hide this (or rarely hide this) and Linux is not a company, unlike Microsoft.⬆