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What makes the news is hardly the most typical experiences. Come on, you know how reporters butcher anything in tech, I'm sure.

QAPereo 9y ago
To be fair, tech is full of relatively unfamiliar and complicated language and concepts (at least for the average Journalism major). While I won't deny the sensationalist nature of the coverage (it is the British press after all), I do think it's still generally fair.
- cimi_ 9y ago
  > While I won't deny the sensationalist nature of the coverage (it is the British press after all), I do think it's still generally fair. It's not, it's a consequence of the politization of the event. The conservative press is directly hostile because of the openly liberal stance the festival takes. The coverage in e.g. The Guardian [1] is substantially different. I've been there this year, the event is incredible - it's very impressive to see how well everything works and how well people from very different backgrounds, with different tastes, different ages etc. just get along and have fun. The quality of the acts and organization is very very high. While the garbage photos are true, there are more than 200K people there for 5 days, then they all leave at once! It has nothing to do with drugs, imagine a city emptying out all at once.
- cooper12 9y ago
  I think they're referring to media incompetence and biases in general rather than the difficulty of subjects. For example, if you follow conservative news, you'd think that pride parades were naked men playing with dildos and humping each other rather than huge corporate and sanitized events with only a minority of that. (the news always focuses on what is the most salient and buzz-generating aspect of things, such as making outlandish claims in tech about AI) See also the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gell-mann-amnesia-effect-is-as-follows-you http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gel....

QAPereo 9y ago

To be fair, tech is full of relatively unfamiliar and complicated language and concepts (at least for the average Journalism major). While I won't deny the sensationalist nature of the coverage (it is the British press after all), I do think it's still generally fair.

cimi_ 9y ago
> While I won't deny the sensationalist nature of the coverage (it is the British press after all), I do think it's still generally fair. It's not, it's a consequence of the politization of the event. The conservative press is directly hostile because of the openly liberal stance the festival takes. The coverage in e.g. The Guardian [1] is substantially different. I've been there this year, the event is incredible - it's very impressive to see how well everything works and how well people from very different backgrounds, with different tastes, different ages etc. just get along and have fun. The quality of the acts and organization is very very high. While the garbage photos are true, there are more than 200K people there for 5 days, then they all leave at once! It has nothing to do with drugs, imagine a city emptying out all at once.
cooper12 9y ago
I think they're referring to media incompetence and biases in general rather than the difficulty of subjects. For example, if you follow conservative news, you'd think that pride parades were naked men playing with dildos and humping each other rather than huge corporate and sanitized events with only a minority of that. (the news always focuses on what is the most salient and buzz-generating aspect of things, such as making outlandish claims in tech about AI) See also the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gell-mann-amnesia-effect-is-as-follows-you http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gel....