4 ms·
> Real kudos to the press who broke and made very public the stories. This was the media at its finest. On the other hand, most of the press was more than happ
by dingbat 10y ago
> Real kudos to the press who broke and made very public the stories. This was the media at its finest.
On the other hand, most of the press was more than happy to play along with this charade. Those in the media who ran with lazy profiles enabling this fraud should be remembered.
- danso 10y agoThe Wall Street Journal, and in particular, reporter John Carreyrou, deserve a special callout for launching an investigation while the rest of the press was idle. I was struck by this ProPublica podcast with Carreyrou in which the interviewer, a Pulitzer Prize winner himself, said he and other health reporters had heard grumblings and rumors but don't enough to pursue a closer look. Carreyrou, on the other hand, said he acted on a New Yorker profile (which, IMHO, was fairly well balanced) in which he was curious how the company could keep its technology so obscured. https://www.propublica.org/podcast/item/how-a-reporter-pierced-the-hype-behind-theranos https://www.propublica.org/podcast/item/how-a-reporter-pierc... http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/15/blood-simpler http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/15/blood-simpler
- bane 10y agoyeah, absolutely true. The tech press was (as typical) atrocious, not much more than the caricature of tech blogs in Silicon Valley. The mainstream press was slightly better in at least raising the questions. It was obvious for more than a year that something was up with them. Holmes' complete inability to answer simple direct questions was a huge flag to me, and when I saw it in interviews I was really waiting for the press to pounce and it just never seemed to come. "So you say you aren't approved to do any testing?" wink wink "<typical long winded Holmesian answer>" "moving on, what's it like being a woman running a startup?"