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It still bamboozles me that tech journalism is acting as the PR arm of the government and failing a basic "misleading name" test. I can't wait for them to do ap
by netbioserror 3y ago
It still bamboozles me that tech journalism is acting as the PR arm of the government and failing a basic "misleading name" test. I can't wait for them to do apologetic retrospectives on the Patriot Act informing me that mass surveillance is, in fact, patriotic.
- Eumenes 3y agoThey think they'll get a job in a future regime ... I suspect press/communications czar is a title alot of tech "journalists" have dreamed about since they were on the high school paper. You don't get that job being critical of the government. You think Seymour Hersh would take a gig with George W, Trump, or Obama?
- Mountain_Skies 3y agoThat might be their way of thinking but sometimes things go in the other direction. The most critical voice against the city government where I lived in the early 2010s got hired by the mayor to become a "special advisor". That shut her up completely. Instead of scathing columns about government corruption, she put out the occasional press release for the mayor over his two terms. IIRC, there was a similar storyline in the tv show 'Spin City', which makes me think it is a somewhat common thing to happen.
- tbrownaw 3y agoIt's not just tech journalism.