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nice story with some hard detail on how and why CNET's technology coverage has become increasingly toothless:

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New: CNET's AI saga is just the most visible effect of being owned by Red Ventures, a private equity-backed marketing firm. Former staff told me about the breakdown of editorial firewalls at CNET, including being pushed to change stories for advertisers. theverge.com/2023/2/2/23582

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Karl Bode

@KarlBode

Feb 2

stories like this are the future of technology journalism as CNET's private equity owners envision it. it's violently unsurprising they were the first in line to embrace AI without caring much about accuracy or its impact on readers and employees

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Karl Bode

@KarlBode

Feb 2

the future of U.S. journalism is a global chorus of robot-generated affiliate blogspam, corporate earlobe nibbling, racist op/eds, native ads, and controversy trolls, all chirping at one another in a giant ouroboros of clickbait gibberish

Karl Bode

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CNET wasn't much better when it was owned by CBS, which once prevented the outlet from giving a CES award to Dish Network because the two were embroiled in a legal feud over cable box ad skipping:

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Just How Dumb Is It For CBS To Block CNET From Giving Dish An Award?

As you may or may not recall, last year, pretty much all the TV networks sued Dish Networks over a new feature it had launched, PrimeTime Any Time (PTAT), with its Autohopper technology on its DVRs…

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and based on this Verge article, things at CNET have gotten significantly worse since CBS' departure: