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What he seems to be saying, in an elegantly indirect way, is: A) Um, yeah, PR firms shill for their clients on the Apple Store. Duh. People who didn't see this
by mechanical_fish 17y ago
What he seems to be saying, in an elegantly indirect way, is:
A) Um, yeah, PR firms shill for their clients on the Apple Store. Duh. People who didn't see this coming are deluding themselves.
B) Moreover, it's particularly ironic that TechCrunch, a site which sits squarely in the center of the tech PR universe, would profess to be shocked, shocked at the behavior of the people that they chat with every day.
C) If TechCrunch really is shocked by this, they're going to have a nervous breakdown when they figure out (e.g.) what percentage of the stuff they read every day is written by PR staffers.
- raganwald 17y ago> it's particularly ironic that TechCrunch, a site which sits squarely in the center of the tech PR universe, would profess to be shocked, shocked at the behavior of the people that they chat with every day. I would use the word hypocritical rather than ironic, because (and you allude to this with your Casablanca reference) they are firmly in the know. Irony would be them gaming the blogoverse with unethical "journalism" and link-baiting then discovering that they've been gamed themselves by PR firms.
- mechanical_fish 17y agoEditorial advice accepted -- thanks! But I'll leave the original as it is, to preserve the record for future historians. ;)