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These 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 g
by ActionHank 9mo ago
These 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 9mo agoAre you accusing the SF Standard of running a paid promotion without disclosing it as such?
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- ramon156 9mo 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 9mo agoHere's the ethics policy for the SF Standard: https://sfstandard.com/ethics-standards/ https://sfstandard.com/ethics-standards/
- ActionHank 9mo agoIt’s a puff piece with no substance that tries to frame the interviewee positively with no real apparent reason.
- labcomputer 9mo agoOK, and? It doesn’t say anything about paid (or otherwise) promotions.
- simonw 9mo 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 9mo 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 9mo 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 9mo agoWhat is the value of this piece? Who benefits from people reading it?
- simonw 9mo agoIt's clearly access journalism - the Replit press team set this up, and the SF Standard took the opportunity. For Replit it's a good way to raise the profile of their founder, important for this phase of the company. The SF Standard get an interesting profile out if this because Masad is an unconventional shape of founder. The Palestinian angle is a great hook to build a story around, especially right now. The Standard's editorial brand involves presenting tech stories from their own unique angle which makes this a good fit for them. This is their best performing story on HN in a long time, so it clearly resonated with an audience that they presumably want to reach: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=sfstandard.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=sfstandard.com
- barbarr 9mo ago> He smirked. "Yes, I am."
- CjHuber 9mo 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 9mo agoI did not even notice that, yikes.