“will anyone ever write another positive story about a tech startup? i said probably not” — i rarely agree with erin, but her comments here do succinctly illustrate tech’s frustration with the media. silly to work with people professionally committed to attacking you. https://twitter.com/eringriffith/status/1229589453183713280 …
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A profession in terminal structural decline vs. one that is "eating the world" are inevitably going to be at loggerheads.
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Maybe it will generate some empathy about Wall St in tech industry. Both have issues to deal w/ but improve lives far more than press critics do. FB, Google, Amazon have improved my life as a consumer; tech press or NYT gen negativity + noise & could go away & I wouldn't care.
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the problem of course is they weren’t trying to write about balaji’s take on coronavirus, they were trying to write about balaji
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I remember tweeting about this a few years ago: https://twitter.com/khaledealy/status/944349334904164353?s=21 …https://twitter.com/khaledealy/status/944349334904164353 …
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I've been framing this as "food critic for startups."
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“Food Critic for Startups”, as delightfully explained in Ratatouille.pic.twitter.com/PF7ZsqAW7o
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Yes! And to everyone who shares these concerns: we’re building a media outlet w/precisely this mission at Freethink: thoughtful coverage from the frontiers of our changing world, minus the cynicism that dominates much of media. Contributors wanted; DM’s open!

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Flagging the tech media for 'shallowness' in addition to cynicism is really instructive. There's a generalizable association between 'pessimism' + the 'pretense of journalistic rigor'. "…*serious news* can essentially be defined as *what's going wrong*"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/17/steven-pinker-media-negative-news …
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