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Remember that new york times tried to sympathize her or I don’t know what you call this kind of article. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/business/elizabeth-h

Remember that new york times tried to sympathize her or I don’t know what you call this kind of article. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/business/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-interview.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/business/elizabeth-holmes...

netsharc 3y ago
The author of that piece was first charmed but her editor snapped her out of it, and I feel she manages to convey to the reader that the whole Liz thing was another bedazzlement move: https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/07/elizabeth-holmes-left-to-her-own-devices/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/07/elizabeth-holmes-left-to-h... She even wrote in the NYT piece: "If you are in her presence, it is impossible not to believe her, not to be taken with her and be taken in by her.", and that is not meant to be complimentary... But hey, if you wrote an article and many many people, even in your own business, misunderstand it as fan-girling, did you succeed at your job?
- jdm2212 3y ago
  > But hey, if you wrote an article and many many people, even in your own business, misunderstand it as fan-girling, did you succeed at your job? There are a lot of people who post dumb hot takes without reading the article to the end, that very much includes people in journalism.
  - groby_b 3y ago
    Having read the article to the end - it was an extremely bad article.
- feoren 3y ago
  > "If you are in her presence, it is impossible not to believe her, not to be taken with her and be taken in by her." Bullshit. She's not a sorcerer. She's not Jafar. It's your choice whether you turn off your bullshit meter or not. This sounds like "you would have murdered that hobo too if you thought you could get away with it!" No, I have no desire to murder hobos, and "we'd all do it!" is the opinion of a deeply troubled person. "We'd all believe obvious stupid bullshit if a pretty lady looked into our soul with those weird alien dead eyes that she has!" I've seen her talk and she just looked like a robot pretending to be Steve Jobs, spouting nonsense that anyone with either a modest understanding of the subject or a willingness to fact-check her on absolutely anything would easily see through. Absolute bullshit excuse.

netsharc 3y ago

The author of that piece was first charmed but her editor snapped her out of it, and I feel she manages to convey to the reader that the whole Liz thing was another bedazzlement move: https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/07/elizabeth-holmes-left-to-her-own-devices/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/07/elizabeth-holmes-left-to-h... She even wrote in the NYT piece: "If you are in her presence, it is impossible not to believe her, not to be taken with her and be taken in by her.", and that is not meant to be complimentary... But hey, if you wrote an article and many many people, even in your own business, misunderstand it as fan-girling, did you succeed at your job?

jdm2212 3y ago
> But hey, if you wrote an article and many many people, even in your own business, misunderstand it as fan-girling, did you succeed at your job? There are a lot of people who post dumb hot takes without reading the article to the end, that very much includes people in journalism.
- groby_b 3y ago
  Having read the article to the end - it was an extremely bad article.
feoren 3y ago
> "If you are in her presence, it is impossible not to believe her, not to be taken with her and be taken in by her." Bullshit. She's not a sorcerer. She's not Jafar. It's your choice whether you turn off your bullshit meter or not. This sounds like "you would have murdered that hobo too if you thought you could get away with it!" No, I have no desire to murder hobos, and "we'd all do it!" is the opinion of a deeply troubled person. "We'd all believe obvious stupid bullshit if a pretty lady looked into our soul with those weird alien dead eyes that she has!" I've seen her talk and she just looked like a robot pretending to be Steve Jobs, spouting nonsense that anyone with either a modest understanding of the subject or a willingness to fact-check her on absolutely anything would easily see through. Absolute bullshit excuse.