Another tired parade of punching bag topics without a single - not one - acknowledgement of the contribution these “elites” and their companies have made. The

Another tired parade of punching bag topics without a single - not one - acknowledgement of the contribution these “elites” and their companies have made. The idea that the media’s fawning is the reason tech “got away with it” is stunning in its lack of truth or evidence. Every one of the harms raised were covered at the time they occurred extensively and have been raised ad nauseam forever after. What I did appreciate was the observation that DEI is not some panacea for the harms these companies cause. The harms of tech are often the harms of society at large. The Baffler proudly stands on today’s purity test that criticizing tech is the only way to be a credible journalist, while serving as one more glaring example that there’s not much credibility left to the craft. No new insight. No sources. No education on where tech and these complex issues collide. The fact that Swisher’s mea culpa is proof of insincerity reveals the culture war this piece is really designed to propel - if you want to contribute to tech, let go of any hope of approval from the press. It may surprise the writer to learn - that was the rules of the game from the beginning.