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This is important information and an interesting point, but I'm not surprised that it's less highlighted. Tech companies are some of the most powerful entities
by hardwaregeek 6y ago
This is important information and an interesting point, but I'm not surprised that it's less highlighted. Tech companies are some of the most powerful entities in the world. They pay their employees extremely high salaries, make billions of dollars and control how basically everybody goes about their life, from using the internet to interacting socially.
Tech journalism...is none of those things. Oh sure they have power in that they can critique the companies and expose their issues. But their influence is not on the same level as tech companies' influence. Their journalists are not getting paid high salaries. They're not controlling our daily lives.
Journalism as a whole? Diversity is definitely a hot topic there. Tech journalism? Ehh.
Of course we should care about diversity throughout society. But that's not how it works. We care about diversity when there is power, either an intense amount of it or an intense lack of it. We care about the diversity of Ivy League schools and the diversity of prisons. We don't care about the diversity of baristas. Therefore we don't care about it in tech journalism.
- thinkingemote 6y agoThe point is that we care about stuff that journalism says we should care about.