Comments on: The Sorry State of “Journalism”

By: GaryPatterson

GaryPatterson — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:30:48 +0000

The killer is that long after the issue is resolved, people will remember the controversy and consider it unresolved.

Remember the delay between releasing OS X for x86 and the Darwin source code? Apple released after a few months, claiming they had ‘all hands on deck’ for the OS release and left cleaning the code up for open sourcing until afterwards. Seems perfectly reasonable.

Bloggers are still claiming their victory over Apple on this one – they believe that it was only the merry hell they raised that forced Apple to release the code. Apple, they claim, were shutting out the F/OSS developers because Apple hates any loss of control, blah blah blah blah.

My point (eventually) is that the crappy pseudo-journalists who write blogs would far rather rant about some controversy than confirm it from the company in question. In their minds, any controversy is already confirmed and slotted in with their personal biases. And so, long after an issue has been resolved, the mythology of the blogger effect lives on.

By: Rip Ragged

Rip Ragged — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:45:36 +0000

Journalism is dead. It isn’t just the “Night of the Living Enderles” in tech; it’s everywhere.

There is no objectivity in anything. The whole fucking media circus is “Us vs. Them.”

The good thing is that it’s funny to watch.

By: The Angry Drunk

The Angry Drunk — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:24:34 +0000

@Allanimal:
I’d kill for some Guinness Stew. Sadly every restaurant I’ve been to so far seems to have an obsession with (badly) copying French cuisine.

By: Allanimal

Allanimal — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:53:12 +0000

Definitely agree about the state of tech journalism & this here app store thing.

As far as Irish food, I thought the Beef & Guinness Stew was quite tasty.

By: Moeskido

Moeskido — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:07:41 +0000

The back-and-forth on this issue reminds me a bit of a year ago when folks who’d bought the iPhone v1 began caterwauling about the lack of apps, as though the device would be stuck in version 1 limbo forever. This was replaced by a bunch of caterwauling about iPhones having supposedly been deliberately bricked by a software update. Good grief.

By: Wrinkle_In_Time

Wrinkle_In_Time — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:00:56 +0000

Agreed. The speculation is hysterical. I must confess that I am enjoying the blogger sturm und drang, though.

I think I suffer from Schadenfreude Rubber-necker by Proxy syndrome.

By: The Angry Drunk

The Angry Drunk — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:53:39 +0000

@Steven Fisher: Good! At least one organization that styles themselves "journalists" was able to figure out how to do their jobs. Now let's talk about Macworld, ZDNet, CNet, etc. Also note that when someone finally pulled their head out of their ass long enough to actually ask Apple what's up the corporate communications department's response basically amounted to "wha?!?"

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:39:51 +0000

Completely agree. Well said.

By: Steven Fisher

Steven Fisher — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:24:14 +0000

NY Times has tried:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/apples-capricious-app-policy/