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Does anybody else get the sense that the NYT's role in reporting about the tech industry is that of a gossip rag?
by SamReidHughes 10y ago
Does anybody else get the sense that the NYT's role in reporting about the tech industry is that of a gossip rag?
- whorleater 10y agoYou do realize this is an opinion article right
- loeg 10y agoWhoever wrote it, NYT chose to publish it.
- whorleater 10y agoOpinions pieces do not carry an implicit approval of the publisher, that's their entire point. Just because the NYT allowed an op-ed reflects little on their journalistic standards.
- mercer 10y agoThis does show how perhaps the 'op-ed' doesn't quite work in its current form on this new-fangled internet thing. I've talked to more than one person who assumed something written on the main domain was a 'proper' article, when in actuality it turned out to be an op-ed, blog (some new site did/does this) by essentially a random person, or something like that. Maybe people made this mistake before and I'm only noticing it now?
- whorleater 10y agoI feel like this is only an issue with people who only skim the title and fail to actually read the article. The page itself makes it very clear that it's an opinion article, and if you're drawing conclusions from the url or title itself it's the fault of the person.
- EduardoBautista 10y agoA lot of the "news" coming out of SV is a gossip rag.
- WalterSear 10y agoParticularly the news about SV that comes out of NY.
- bogomipz 10y agoDo you really believe this is a East Coast vs West Coast thing? The NYT reserves as much finger-wagging for Wall Street as well. There have been no shortage of similar pieces that have come out of the Mid-West and California newspapers. Additionally most of the S.V giants also have offices and a presence in NYC these days.
- WalterSear 10y agoSV has a lot of problems. There is a lot to write about. However, yes, I do feel that I have read a disproportionate amount of poorly reasoned op-eds decrying Silicon Valley culture published by east coast news institutions. Moreover, no, I don't feel that NYT is remotely as critical of Wall Street. By a long shot, and particularly in regards issues such as sexism and in-group biases. They aren't even as critical of tech offices in New York - the trouble is always 'over there'.
- bogomipz 10y agoI am guessing you don't read the NY Times daily or on a regular basis then. The NY Times is quite regularly critical about Wall Street shenanigans and its rampant sexism. Here is an article from this past summer specifically specifically calling out "Bro culture" on Wall Street and its rampant sexism in the work place: "How Wall Street Bro Talk Keeps Women Down": https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/opinion/sunday/how-wall-street-bro-talk-keeps-women-down.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/opinion/sunday/how-wall-s... Here is another Op piece from a month ago calling out Wall Street on the refusal of its CEOs to put any of their own skin in the game. "Welcome Back, Wall Street. Now Pay Us Back.": https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/opinion/sunday/welcome-back-wall-street-now-pay-us-back.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/opinion/sunday/welcome-ba... Such pieces critical of Wall Street are quite regular in the NYTimes. It's easy to see the NYTimes as singling out S.V. because people regularly submit NYTimes coverage of S.V. to Hacker News. In fact in the last couple of years it seems there's been a perceptible uptick of S.V stories from the NYTimes that wind up on HN. So no the trouble isn't always "over there" according to the NYTimes, similar problems in their own backyard feature quite regularly as well.
- Spooky23 10y agoIt's an op-ed by Dan Lyons aka fake Steve Jobs.
- bogomipz 10y agoNo I don't think that's an accurate statement. This is an Ed-Op piece and as such they are editorializing. That's the nature of this format. Note the word "Opinion" at the top.
- ams6110 10y agoAs opposed to their other reporting?