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The headline is misleading. It is an opinion piece trying to promote a book. Your attempts to skim through it to find information about the new company will fai

The headline is misleading. It is an opinion piece trying to promote a book. Your attempts to skim through it to find information about the new company will fail.

drspacemonkey 8y ago
For what it's worth, the book is excellent, and very in-depth. You're correct that this is just a glorified advertisement for the book, though.
- jpz 8y ago
  It's a podcast interview with an author - how is that an "advertisement"? Interviewing an author about his book in a culture magazine is a legitimate journalistic exercise, and it is expected that his research and publications will be heavily mentioned in such an interview. Carreyou workes for WSJ, Vanity Fair is owned by Conde Nast, and his book is published by Double Day. I don't see where you see some kind of implied promotional exercise, given all of these corporate entities have distinct, non-overlapping ownership.
Bucephalus355 8y ago
Is this some PR firm hired by Holmes to post negative content? Or Holmes herself? I feel like there are only 10 ppl in the world who would really believe the above statement / stand to gain from it. The book he is “promoting” is the one he wrote about Theranos / Holmes fraud. It’s incredibly germane to the article.
- inteleng 8y ago
  The article is badly written, if true. The title is almost entirely unrelated to the content.
  - jpz 8y ago
    It's a hook to the article, the article covers the podcast interview - and the hook is hearing that Holmes is looking for new VC funds. That's interesting in as much as it reveals her shamelessness, I don't see on what basis you call that "bad writing". Secondly, article titles are not always chosen by the column author, but by the editorial team - if you don't like an article title - you are sometimes more exact to call it bad editorial.
- dang 8y ago
  This comment breaks the HN guidelines, which ask you not to insinuate astroturfing or shillage without evidence. Internet users are too quick to do this and it poisons threads. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Pywarrior 8y ago
They also promote a podcast or other recording that appears to be an hour long, there might be more info in there.

The headline is misleading. It is an opinion piece trying to promote a book. Your attempts to skim through it to find information about the new company will fail.

drspacemonkey 8y ago

For what it's worth, the book is excellent, and very in-depth. You're correct that this is just a glorified advertisement for the book, though.

jpz 8y ago
It's a podcast interview with an author - how is that an "advertisement"? Interviewing an author about his book in a culture magazine is a legitimate journalistic exercise, and it is expected that his research and publications will be heavily mentioned in such an interview. Carreyou workes for WSJ, Vanity Fair is owned by Conde Nast, and his book is published by Double Day. I don't see where you see some kind of implied promotional exercise, given all of these corporate entities have distinct, non-overlapping ownership.

Bucephalus355 8y ago

Is this some PR firm hired by Holmes to post negative content? Or Holmes herself? I feel like there are only 10 ppl in the world who would really believe the above statement / stand to gain from it. The book he is “promoting” is the one he wrote about Theranos / Holmes fraud. It’s incredibly germane to the article.

inteleng 8y ago
The article is badly written, if true. The title is almost entirely unrelated to the content.
- jpz 8y ago
  It's a hook to the article, the article covers the podcast interview - and the hook is hearing that Holmes is looking for new VC funds. That's interesting in as much as it reveals her shamelessness, I don't see on what basis you call that "bad writing". Secondly, article titles are not always chosen by the column author, but by the editorial team - if you don't like an article title - you are sometimes more exact to call it bad editorial.
dang 8y ago
This comment breaks the HN guidelines, which ask you not to insinuate astroturfing or shillage without evidence. Internet users are too quick to do this and it poisons threads. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Pywarrior 8y ago

They also promote a podcast or other recording that appears to be an hour long, there might be more info in there.