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industry media is usually fawning - why pay a writer to write a whole article when you can just reprint a press release with slight edits? - they live in fear
by nerfhammer 13y ago
industry media is usually fawning
- why pay a writer to write a whole article when you can just reprint a press release with slight edits?
- they live in fear of "losing access" because they have nothing else to cover
- kool-aid-drinking sells
E.g., can you imagine TechCrunch announcing a new startup and then criticizing its concept? it would make startups would think twice about giving them any releases, writers would be able to produce less content, no kool aid.
outsider media, on the other hand, can land on the other end of the pendulum of being overly cynical, paranoid, underinformed etc.
- bztzt 13y agoI actually think a lot of media has both sets of problems at the same time. They will take press releases or whatever and reprint them coated in identical thin layers of snark and generic cynicism, without providing any real criticism or context.
- eli_gottlieb 13y ago>E.g., can you imagine TechCrunch announcing a new startup and then criticizing its concept? it would make startups would think twice about giving them any releases, writers would be able to produce less content, no kool aid. On the other hand, that's the only thing that would make me read TechCrunch and take them seriously.