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They need to retitle that article "Old man yells at cloud". The intellectual vacuum of this article can be summed up by the fact that the author chose a fictio
by beat 12y ago
They need to retitle that article "Old man yells at cloud".
The intellectual vacuum of this article can be summed up by the fact that the author chose a fictional character as his Silicon Valley CEO strawman. At least point to a real villain!
- lstyls 12y agoIts so ironic that the author is a journalism professor. This article would make for a perfect Journalism 101 case study on cheap rhetorical tricks: appeal to anecdote, straw man, etc.
- beat 12y agoReminds me of seeing Neil Postman speak oh so many years ago. I got there late, and met a friend (still a friend, he's my patent attorney now) leaving. Asked him how it was, and he was like, "Neil Postman is a cretin". Totally anti-tech reactionary. He was railing about how word processors were going to destroy literacy, and we should all write with pencils like a Real Journalist.