The Angry Drunk

Dan Frommer with some very good advice for peo­ple who write on the Intartubes. I can’t claim that I always meet these goals with The Angry Drunk, but I sure as shit try.

Fuck me blind, I’m link­ing to a ZDNet arti­cle. Nonetheless, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes agrees with what all the sane peo­ple are saying:

The prob­lem with all these Apple TV rumors is that no one can come up with a sin­gle com­pelling rea­son why Apple should go into the busi­ness of mak­ing TVs. Sure, it’s easy to pull together tech­nolo­gies like Siri and ARM-based CPUs, then do some hand-waving and come to the con­clu­sion that Apple must be work­ing on TVs but all this ignores the fact that Apple already sells a prod­uct that will con­nect to any TV that hap­pens to have an HDMI con­nec­tor called the AppleTV. What’s more, that prod­uct, even at $99, isn’t exactly set­ting the world alight.

Bingo.

That “uni­corn and sad­dle” metaphor seems awfully famil­iar though.

Peter Cohen for The Loop:

In what is surely the most ridicu­lous, man­u­fac­tured con­tro­versy in – well, at least 15 min­utes – Apple has been accused of hav­ing a pro-life stance because Siri, the voice-based assis­tant built in to the iPhone 4S, is unable to locate nearby abor­tion clin­ics upon request. I won’t be link­ing to any of the rel­e­vant links, because they’re not worth your time, and I don’t want to give them traffic.

Regardless of my per­sonal and pro­fes­sional rela­tion­ships with Jim and Peter, this is why I love The Loop. They actu­ally under­stand what the job of jour­nal­ism is about. No bull­shit “he said — she said” false equiv­a­lence. The fail­ure to apply crit­i­cal think­ing to a story is the great­est fail­ure of mod­ern so-called “journalism.”