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Man, Forbes and others just keep hammering her with hit pieces. We get it, you don't like her. Her company's tech didn't pan out. Everyone wanted so desperately

Man, Forbes and others just keep hammering her with hit pieces. We get it, you don't like her. Her company's tech didn't pan out. Everyone wanted so desperately for her to succeed that they praised her as a fully formed, late stage Steve Jobs in a dress. It's as if they want to hurt her feelings more than report any actual substantive news.

pwthornton 10y ago
How is this a hit or anything else a hit piece? She very well may be a major-league fraud. This is exactly what we want the press to do.
- atonse 10y ago
  There's a difference between what we want the press to do, and what we want a mob to do. These articles are more like a mob. What the press (including Forbes) SHOULD HAVE done, was ask Holmes and Theranos difficult questions years ago, instead of functioning as PR outlets. They didn't do that. That's what the press is SUPPOSED to do, not just pile on like an angry mob with a soapbox.
  - braythwayt 10y ago
    I agree with this. The value of the press is when it adds bits of information. If it tells us that she and her investors have been perpetrating a fraud after we have discovered the same via discussion son Hacker News, &c, they are adding nothing in the way of journalism. Their responsibility is to break the story, not follow it.
freyr 10y ago
> Her company's tech didn't pan out. That's about the most generous way of possibly framing it. She apparently deceived investors, the media, and the public, potentially putting people's health at risk in the process. And this deception made her one of the richest people in the world, at least on paper. Like it or not, it's a pretty big story and it will be reported on.
- mhuffman 10y ago
  This is the point! These are the actions that people go to prison for, and some people are like "stop picking on her". If this were an middle-aged white man of privilege, the same people wouldn't rest until he was sharing a cell with Bernie Madoff
  - braythwayt 10y ago
    I have no idea what you are trying to say here. Are you trying to suggest that she is being defended by feminists and people of colour? That there is some SJW conspiracy to defend her because she is a poor, oppressed woman in a world of bad men? I'm struggling to decide whether such a conspiracy theory is best described as "lunacy" or "cuckoo." Neither is strong enough. She is a white person of privilege. Her entire story is one of privilege, of using her connections to ascend to stratospheric heights. And all the while, she and her backers have been perpetrating a fraud involving people's health. I think that if you actually talk to people who care about "white middle-aged men of privilege," you will find that they are disgusted by what she has perpetrated. If you are going to make claims about the people who ask us to "stop picking on her," I think the onus is on you to demonstrate that these same people would have a different perspective if she was middle-aged and male.
  - MaysonL 10y ago
    Like all the bank CEOs that have gone to prison lately…

pwthornton 10y ago

How is this a hit or anything else a hit piece? She very well may be a major-league fraud. This is exactly what we want the press to do.

atonse 10y ago
There's a difference between what we want the press to do, and what we want a mob to do. These articles are more like a mob. What the press (including Forbes) SHOULD HAVE done, was ask Holmes and Theranos difficult questions years ago, instead of functioning as PR outlets. They didn't do that. That's what the press is SUPPOSED to do, not just pile on like an angry mob with a soapbox.
- braythwayt 10y ago
  I agree with this. The value of the press is when it adds bits of information. If it tells us that she and her investors have been perpetrating a fraud after we have discovered the same via discussion son Hacker News, &c, they are adding nothing in the way of journalism. Their responsibility is to break the story, not follow it.

freyr 10y ago

> Her company's tech didn't pan out. That's about the most generous way of possibly framing it. She apparently deceived investors, the media, and the public, potentially putting people's health at risk in the process. And this deception made her one of the richest people in the world, at least on paper. Like it or not, it's a pretty big story and it will be reported on.

mhuffman 10y ago
This is the point! These are the actions that people go to prison for, and some people are like "stop picking on her". If this were an middle-aged white man of privilege, the same people wouldn't rest until he was sharing a cell with Bernie Madoff
- braythwayt 10y ago
  I have no idea what you are trying to say here. Are you trying to suggest that she is being defended by feminists and people of colour? That there is some SJW conspiracy to defend her because she is a poor, oppressed woman in a world of bad men? I'm struggling to decide whether such a conspiracy theory is best described as "lunacy" or "cuckoo." Neither is strong enough. She is a white person of privilege. Her entire story is one of privilege, of using her connections to ascend to stratospheric heights. And all the while, she and her backers have been perpetrating a fraud involving people's health. I think that if you actually talk to people who care about "white middle-aged men of privilege," you will find that they are disgusted by what she has perpetrated. If you are going to make claims about the people who ask us to "stop picking on her," I think the onus is on you to demonstrate that these same people would have a different perspective if she was middle-aged and male.
- MaysonL 10y ago
  Like all the bank CEOs that have gone to prison lately…