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Reporter: Google successfully pressured me to take down critical story
- Overtonwindow 9y agoA corporation pressuring journalists to write favorable coverage, and not publishing harmful articles, is par for the course. Apple is famous for this, and Google is no different. I don't think there's enough independence in tech journalism, and journalists can get beholden to a company to maintain access, advance notice and interaction with products and services, and overtime become little more than a cheerleader. The tech media needs far more independence, but until we break this dependency/playing favorites system we won't have it.
- sctb 9y agoDiscussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15145176 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15145176