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Exactly, I fear this too. I like Sarah Lacey, and I think she does have integrity. But I can't help but feel this is the investors simply moving up the food c
by dotBen 15y ago
Exactly, I fear this too. I like Sarah Lacey, and I think she does have integrity.
But I can't help but feel this is the investors simply moving up the food chain to protect their startups. Rather than rebutting against the media when their own startups are attacked, they have obtained an inside position at source.
I don't believe Sarah thinks this will happen (or she feels she can push back and mitigate) but I'm [sadly] confident this kind of internal pressure will occur at some point.
Fuck it, if I'd invested in her media venture I'd want preferential treatment. And I'm ex BBC with a 'no bias' agenda beaten into me it hurts.
- temphn 15y agoBut the BBC gives preferential treatment to the BBC. It's not about to print all of its own internal emails. All news channels are "biased". You can only integrate and filter.
- dotBen 15y agoI spent 6 years reading internal BBC emails. Can't comment for the rest of the BBC, but nothing comes close to the integrity of BBC News. >But the BBC gives preferential treatment to the BBC Go read any BBC news story right now and scroll to the bottom. They even link out to other news sites covering the same story. I can't think of another news website that links to competitors like that. BBC News certainly doesn't give preferential treatment to BBC.