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I know this isn't very on the topic, but these articles make me cringe physically. > “You should compete,” I suggested. > He smirked. “I always compete.” Fee
by ramon156 10mo ago
I know this isn't very on the topic, but these articles make me cringe physically.
> “You should compete,” I suggested.
> He smirked. “I always compete.”
Feels like a vocal jerk-off. Just tell me the details, idc how tuff the interview was.
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- ActionHank 10mo agoThese pieces are usually just advertising with more words. They want to frame Replit and their hero founder as being rebels who don't follow the rules or fear goliath. This is fantasy fiction for VCs, founders, AI bros, and anyone else who isn't actually looking for information.
- simonw 10mo agoAre you accusing the SF Standard of running a paid promotion without disclosing it as such?
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- ramon156 10mo agoThis is similar to a political campaign not telling you to vote on X, but still talking greatly about X. It's completely legal
- simonw 10mo agoHere's the ethics policy for the SF Standard: https://sfstandard.com/ethics-standards/ https://sfstandard.com/ethics-standards/
- ActionHank 10mo agoIt’s a puff piece with no substance that tries to frame the interviewee positively with no real apparent reason.
- labcomputer 10mo agoOK, and? It doesn’t say anything about paid (or otherwise) promotions.
- simonw 10mo agoI imagine they forgot to explicitly list that because avoiding undisclosed paid promotions is so baked into the ethics of journalism that saying it out loud didn't cross their minds.
- smsm42 10mo agoA: it looks like this article is no more than an ad B: Oh noes, it can't be, they have specific policy against that! A: That policy actually does not have anything about this. B: Ah, that's because they are so ethical that they didn't even think to mention this in their policy! Sure, this sounds extremely convincing. (and of course, nobody ever ignored or tiptoed around a written policy, ever)
- simonw 10mo agoI think an important piece of media literacy is being able to tell if a publication is likely to follow journalistic ethics or not. SF Standard pass that test for me.
- ActionHank 10mo agoWhat is the value of this piece? Who benefits from people reading it?
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- barbarr 10mo ago> He smirked. "Yes, I am."
- CjHuber 10mo agoI don't know what it is but I don't think that it's an ad. Otherwise I guess they wouldn't have that snarky pro-israel undertone towards him.
- ramon156 10mo agoI did not even notice that, yikes.
- simonw 10mo agoThis is a style of writing called "narrative journalism" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_journalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_journalism I find it pretty distracting too.