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The Failure of Tech Journalism
Belzebutt writes: "This is a great article that talks about something we already knew, but haven't paid that much attention to: most tech journalists are a bunch of corporate whores. It even mentions Slashdot, although not very favorably." Eh, we'll get over it. It's a good rant, something to consider as news sites fold left and right.
Steve Gilliard, who wrote the Netslaves article, is a good friend of mine. For some reason he has trouble getting Linux going.
:)
For me it's exactly the opposite. I'm not smart enough to use Windows, so I stick with Linux.
- Robin
PS- PRIVATE MESSAGE TO STEVE G -- you got linked to from Slashdot, and I didn't have a thing to do with it. Are you happy now?
Funny, I've never thought of Slashdot as "journalism". Who are the reporters? Where are the stories they write? Where is the pretense of objectivity?
What about Jon Katz? Katz has been on the cutting edge of journalism since his days at Wired magazine. He has his fingers on the pulse of America's tech culture, and he's correct about everything, AND he is the most objective journalist I've ever seen!
Katz is the pinnacle of tech journalism, and he got totally ignored by the article. It's just really, really sad. Slashdot readers don't deserve him.
From the article:
So the failure of the Mexican project is as surprising as college kids having unprotected sex in dorm rooms.
Shit! College kids are having unprotected sex in dorm rooms? Where the hell am I when this shit happens... why ain't I part of this group? Ah, fuck it... I'm gonna go recompile the kernel again.
Don't trust a bull's horn, a doberman's tooth, a runaway horse or me.
I find it just the opposite. Browsing at 1 - 2 shows the most inteligent posts.
If they're at 5 they have been here too long and are simply karma whores
If they're at 4 they're praising linux in some fashion
If they're at 3 they got lucky
If they're at 2 then they just are well heard
If they're at 1, then it s a unique opinion that isn't heralded because of who or what they are but simply unique for what they actually said.
-1 is just some funny sh1t. +5 is just bliss ignorance
Oh *please*. Slashdot at -1 is like a cross between a kindergarten, a federal prison and a mental institution. No thanks.
Yeah, but isn't that what makes it so much fun?
Yeah, most tech-jouralism consists of towing the corporate line in a futile quest for goodies. It fuckin' blows.
You have 'evangelists' who give only one one side of any issue and if the truth gets bent, well, so what? Eh?
AOL buys NetScape at a fire sale and M$'s lawyers declare than the domain is "vibrant and alive." Yeah. With maggots and blow-flies feeding off the corpse of another ex-competitor.
The software field needs a few "Deep Throats" in Redmond, Cupertino and everywhere else you get suck-dick regurgication of press releases. I want to see a Ralph Nader with a huge hard-on bashing these lying cock-suckers in the head with cinder-blocks.
All we get to read are articles of faith written by the uneducated and underpaid to deceive, obfuscate and distort the qualifications of the pageant contestants. "She got great measurements does't she?" Yeah. I'm supposed to LIKE a girl with three tits and multiple rows teeth like a shark's? That blows but she won't... She'd better not ever try.
Tech manuals aren't much better than hard-copy of the man pages. Choke and puke until you feel like a baby bird. You end up with a sour taste in your mouth (not your own) and screw all left in your wallet at $39.95 to fuck knows how much a pop, for some out-dated hunk of dead tree.
Nobody writes how to USE anything because they don't have a clue what any crap is used for or by whom or how or when and certainly not why. They're liberal arts majors and write on Underwood manual typewriters. (I KNOW some okay?)
I'm going to start a wiki on my site dedicated to everything that's WRONG with this shit. I'll flame the shit out of every ass-hole who cobbles some crap together without a clue as to what its for of how its used or why.
They'll hate me. I don't give a crap.
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"Here is the best way to get modded up on slashdot.
1) Say something like "sure I like linux but let's face it windows is more suitable for everybody"
2) say something republican
3) say something liberterian
4) say something funny
5) say something about how "slashdot is full of karma whores who moderate down pro MS posts" "
Sure, I like linux but let's face it, windows is more suitable for everybody. We must keep the economic embargo on Cuba because the only way to stop a communist dictatorship with an aging leader, set in his ways, is to isolate it from the world community. We must keep giving China MFN status because the only way to stop a communist dictatorship with an aging leader, set in his ways, is to bring it fully into the world community. Do autoerotic foot-fetishists say stupid things in public on purpose? Slashdot is full of karma whores who moderate down pro MS posts.
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