@knowtheory and even that is glossing over the tangled relationships between VCs, startups, and media: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2014/11/20/Buzzfeed-Ben-Smith …
@knowtheory I would like real tech journalism and not propaganda that serves VC masters
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@bascule I suspect that "real" tech journalism may be so difficult as to be impossible. -
@bascule Since so much of the conversations around startups are aspirational & pitch-based. Hard to do external confirmation of anything -
@knowtheory reporters can at least disclose COIs. That's journalistic ethics 101 -
@bascule Yeah CIOs aren't cut and dry though either. Does it matter that Buzzfeed's investors also invest in Uber's competitors? -
@knowtheory it is absolutely imperative that if business interests might taint reporting, that reporters disclose conflicts of interest -
@bascule I'm asking you how you actually decide what is and is not a conflict of interest. -
@bascule And i'm not a nihilist or relativist on this, but i'm also saying this isn't necessarily an easy question to answer.
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