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I don't read a lot of TechCrunch, but did anybody else find this article quite poorly (perhaps hastily) written? (My apologies to the author for the flippancy

I don't read a lot of TechCrunch, but did anybody else find this article quite poorly (perhaps hastily) written? (My apologies to the author for the flippancy of that question) An incorrect word in the opening sentence, a few places where tenses are mixed or incorrect, and generally long-winded sentences... Is this usual for TechCrunch? Regardless, interesting news to wake up to - I'll be interested to watch the direction of both product suites after the acquisition.

sethhochberg 8y ago
A lot of web journalism is like this now... whoever published first gets all the link traffic, so its often a (literal) race to the bottom.
jacques_chester 8y ago
It looks to be a lightly-edited press release. Very common for journalists in a hurry to make quota or get the first link up.
- freddie_mercury 8y ago
  It may be common for other journalists but I don't think that's the explanation in this case. Every acquisition I've been part of, we've briefed journalists beforehand (almost always someone at Techcrunch), they were under an embargo, and the article was pre-written.
  - jacques_chester 8y ago
    > a service that aims to help enterprises plan their strategic projects and workstreams. The service provides business leaders with additional insights into the current status of technical projects and gives them insights into the bottlenecks, risks and dependencies of these projects. These are not words I would expect a journalist to spontaneously generate. This is presser fluff.
    - freddie_mercury 8y ago
      You seem to still believe that Techcrunch is journalism? I thought everyone learned a decade ago that it is a PR content farm thinly masquerading as journalism. Almost certainly the journalist for this is known to someone on the Atlassian media relations team[1], assured them friendly coverage in (unstated, quid pro quo) exchange for future access and exclusives, and then the PR team provided them some copy as "background" for the article. [1]: We can check this guess by looking at his previously publications about Atlassian: - He announced the "next generation of hosted Jira Software" - He announced new & improved integration between Jira & Github - He announced the acquisition of OpsGenie - He announced the launch of Bitbucket Pipelines He's almost certainly been "friendly" with Atlassian marketing for at least 5 years, based on his publication history. So they call him whenever they have something new to announce and he publishes some click bait. It is win-win. After all, this is the article that made it the front page of HN...not any other article about the acquisition.
      - jacques_chester 8y ago
        Are we angrily agreeing? Because I feel like we're angrily agreeing.
        freddie_mercury 8y ago
        I'm not angry. Are you angry? Let's sing kumbaya till no one is angry.

sethhochberg 8y ago

A lot of web journalism is like this now... whoever published first gets all the link traffic, so its often a (literal) race to the bottom.

jacques_chester 8y ago

It looks to be a lightly-edited press release. Very common for journalists in a hurry to make quota or get the first link up.

freddie_mercury 8y ago
It may be common for other journalists but I don't think that's the explanation in this case. Every acquisition I've been part of, we've briefed journalists beforehand (almost always someone at Techcrunch), they were under an embargo, and the article was pre-written.
- jacques_chester 8y ago
  > a service that aims to help enterprises plan their strategic projects and workstreams. The service provides business leaders with additional insights into the current status of technical projects and gives them insights into the bottlenecks, risks and dependencies of these projects. These are not words I would expect a journalist to spontaneously generate. This is presser fluff.
  - freddie_mercury 8y ago
    You seem to still believe that Techcrunch is journalism? I thought everyone learned a decade ago that it is a PR content farm thinly masquerading as journalism. Almost certainly the journalist for this is known to someone on the Atlassian media relations team[1], assured them friendly coverage in (unstated, quid pro quo) exchange for future access and exclusives, and then the PR team provided them some copy as "background" for the article. [1]: We can check this guess by looking at his previously publications about Atlassian: - He announced the "next generation of hosted Jira Software" - He announced new & improved integration between Jira & Github - He announced the acquisition of OpsGenie - He announced the launch of Bitbucket Pipelines He's almost certainly been "friendly" with Atlassian marketing for at least 5 years, based on his publication history. So they call him whenever they have something new to announce and he publishes some click bait. It is win-win. After all, this is the article that made it the front page of HN...not any other article about the acquisition.
    - jacques_chester 8y ago
      Are we angrily agreeing? Because I feel like we're angrily agreeing.
      - freddie_mercury 8y ago
        I'm not angry. Are you angry? Let's sing kumbaya till no one is angry.