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The problem is that "tech journalists" tend to actually be business journalists. They aren't investigative journalists looking to uncover the workings and untru
by ritchiea 13y ago
The problem is that "tech journalists" tend to actually be business journalists. They aren't investigative journalists looking to uncover the workings and untrue assumptions of society increasingly dependent on tech. Most of them do just want to cover new companies & new products & other business news. Many of them invest in those very companies or have spouses in that business community. Yes it is a problem the way tech covers Apple compared to the way tech covers NSA. But what it reveals is that tech journalists aren't the type of journalists we need (definitely not journalists in the 4th branch of government sense) and that investigative journalists need to learn more about tech.
- JVIDEL 13y agoAre there any non-business journalists left? last time I checked CNN had no war correspondents anymore and most news sites have turned into gossip rags not that different from tabloids a decade ago. I think the core problem is that tech is not so important for most people to care about the wrongdoings of the industry and because no pageviews=no money then nobody runs the story.