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But still. How will that affect him at all? There are no consequences for him being wrong. He won't lose advertisers. He won't lose RSS readers. He only ga
by brandnewlow 18y ago
But still. How will that affect him at all? There are no consequences for him being wrong. He won't lose advertisers. He won't lose RSS readers. He only gains pageviews, mindshare, subscribers and google hits by running this stuff and then updating it later to say it's not true.
I don't have a point here, this just strikes me as a pretty weird situation.
- tdavis 18y agoIt probably has to do with the ultimate irrelevance of the information being presented. I read the headline and cared for all of 2 seconds. If you were a respected pundit and you said "Global warming will kill us in a year if we don't all buy electric cars tomorrow", and we all went and bought electric cars, and you were wrong, the consequences would likely be far more severe. Arrington posts unfounded rumors. About the Internet. Eh.