(The “it”, in this case, are the vacuous PR pieces I was reading this morning, waxing lyrical about Google’s AI advances in Android while deathly silent on its surveillance-based business model. Like watching the livestock rejoice about factory farming equipment upgrades.)
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Agreed, but its tough for "tech press" who depend on access & squeezed revenue streams that traditional journalism faces. Govts (to an extent) cannot deny political reporters, but certain (public!) critiques by tech journos (working for tech only pubs) get closed doors forever

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Believe me, many tech journos share your concerns about
#SurveillanceCapitalism and voice them privately.. but the industry can be sensitive & has a lot of control. That's why we need you. Also, academics working in this area, we need you (not denying press responsibility too)
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Can you please share the names of the legitimate reporters? Except for your account, at times, my feed does feel like an echo chamber.
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On the consumer-hardware-side
@GamersNexus tell it like it is, gets shit for it, and still keeps going. So does@paulhardware on the more theoretical and exotic side of tech.
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It's not just "tech" journalism but also political journalism (the "mainstream" anyway) Seems the "fashion" right now is Trump-bashing, Russia-blaming, femmewashing etc. Critical skills and questioning of status quo/norm do not get one promoted in salaried 'journalism'
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Yes this is true, but there are some really good and diligent Journos in tech journalism, in fact some of the best. It seems to have both ends of the spectrum.
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“Design as veneer” and now “tech journalism as fashion”
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