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I read this article and I think this is the entire point. You can't trust corporate media's coverage of would-be wunderkind "entrepreneurs." Between access jou
by JeremyNT 4y ago
I read this article and I think this is the entire point. You can't trust corporate media's coverage of would-be wunderkind "entrepreneurs."
Between access journalism, hero worship, a narrative formula that's known to sell, and laziness, journalists are all too glad to not only look the other way, but actively curate a reality distortion field on behalf of bad actors.
It's not just that they didn't see through SBF, it's that it never would occur to them to even look. That's simply not what they are optimised to do when they cover this class of person.
- autotune 4y agoYeah, the best any of them can say at this point is "we ignored publishing anything on him," and that was more likely due to sheer luck than responsible journalism.
- koofdoof 4y agoThe book "Trust me I'm lying" goes into detail about this phenomenon. It is the interest of the media to be tricked, the authors get big stories and clicks and can then turn around and play dumb if things blow up. No one remembers the individual journalist who wrote the puff pieces, so the negative effects of eroding trust fall to a tragedy of the commons situation.