Tech Journalism Criticism

This is very easily disproven if you just go read the news they write. They are appropriately critical of things that deserve skepticism but they still write fun stories about cool internet stuff when they want. Consider this love letter to the Roku screensaverhttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/02/style/roku-city

It's just shit popsci journalism. Better off reading The Register.

It's not "misshaped" if it's precisely the way it's meant to be. The media need to stop trading credibility for clicks, before they run out. I flagged this article, if the idea is to give HN a pretext to talk about Webb, there are plenty of better articles out there to use.

How did this get voted to the top of HackerNews? It's shoddy journalism and less credible than the blog post it critiques.

I'm afraid if the article mentioned all these issues, that would be proper journalism.But no. This guy's tea getting cold is much more important topic to concentrate on.

FWIW, The Information's piece definitely crossed the "too indignation-inducing to be true" threshold for me. And I for one, would enjoy an essay about such topic as it would be very relevant to the HN community that is often just as eager as journalists to see certain individuals or startups fail for whatever reason.

How can CNN and this Peter Valdes-Dapena publish something like this where the only criticism is a short line buried at the end calling subscribe-a-speed "a bit of a cheat"? That's not journalism, it's a fluff piece.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14900615 (criticizing other media coverage of this).

Anyone have a link to less editorialized coverage of this issue?

It's a fairly non-committal statement below a Reuters headline that is not borne out by the actual article. And it is not alone.* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18148811