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Are you accusing the SF Standard of running a paid promotion without disclosing it as such?
by simonw 10mo ago
Are 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?
- simonw 10mo 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
- ActionHank 10mo agoSee my earlier point that this article is meant to read like fiction for a demographic that are not actually involved in using any of this tech on the daily.
- barbarr 10mo ago> He smirked. "Yes, I am."