Hilarious piece by @benthompson on the ever more transparent ways in which media corporations attack their tech competitors by “reporting” on them.
stratechery.com/2020/media-reg…
stratechery.com/2020/media-reg…
The game is completely over at this point. No one smart in tech thinks of employees of media corporations as neutral arbiters.
It’s not that everything they print is false. You may still read the NYT, just like the NYT still posts on Facebook.
But no naïveté about neutrality.
It’s not that everything they print is false. You may still read the NYT, just like the NYT still posts on Facebook.
But no naïveté about neutrality.
It’s all out in the open now.
Reading their articles on tech companies (somehow never accompanied by banners disclosing the enormous conflict of interest) is like seeing Coke attempt to gain market share from Pepsi by ever meaner blog posts.
Reading their articles on tech companies (somehow never accompanied by banners disclosing the enormous conflict of interest) is like seeing Coke attempt to gain market share from Pepsi by ever meaner blog posts.
