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The piece describes an incident where a reporter asked YouTube some questions via email and the reply included an on-background section that the reporter chose
by raldi 6y ago
The piece describes an incident where a reporter asked YouTube some questions via email and the reply included an on-background section that the reporter chose to publish in full anyway.
Immediately after telling this dick-move story, the author laments, "Silicon Valley wasn't always so hostile to reporters."
The piece's criticisms against tech have a point, but the author has a real blind spot when it comes to looking in the mirror and considering ways that the media isn't entirely blameless for the frayed relations either.
- trowawee 6y agoI mean, that's not a dick move tho? Going "on background" or "off the record" is not a one-way conversation. It's a negotiation with the journalist. It's not a magical invocation that binds the other party once they hear the words.