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Maybe I wouldn't use the umbrella term "tech journalist who hates tech" because I can see where comes from the need for public scrutiny that every big industry
by braza 2y ago
Maybe I wouldn't use the umbrella term "tech journalist who hates tech" because I can see where comes from the need for public scrutiny that every big industry faces when becoming influential (e.g., tobacco, food, alcoholic beverages, etc.), and I think we as a society need to acknowledge that technology enjoyed one of the biggest public good wills without any kind of critique (not criticism).
I'm OK with the articles around privacy, political influence, power affluency, and surveillance, but when this becomes the main agenda for a publication that has as a target public starttups, VCs, and other parts of their ecosystem, it's hard to stick with that. In other words, I feel better seeing that kind of content in a more nuanced and in-depth way in The Atlantic, NYT or other independent media than in a publication that does not have that pedigree.