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Walt Mossberg Is Retiring (theverge.com)
Walt Mossberg, a well-respected and long-time tech journalist, announced via The Verge that he will be retiring in June of this year. In his announcement post, he starts by reflecting on where it all began: It was a June day when I began my career as a national journalist. I stepped into the Detroit Bureau of The Wall Street Journal and started on what would be a long, varied, rewarding career. I was 23 years old, and the year was 1970. That's not a typo. So it seems fitting to me that I'll be retiring this coming June, almost exactly 47 years later. I'll be hanging it up shortly after the 2017 edition of the Code Conference, a wonderful event I co-founded in 2003 and which I could never have imagined back then in Detroit. I didn't make this decision lightly or hastily or under pressure. It emerged from months of thought and months of talks with my wise wife, my family, and close friends. It wasn't prompted by my employer or by some dire health diagnosis. It just seems like the right time to step away. I'm ready for something new.
But I can't think of a single thing I've ever read that this Mossberg guy has written.
Perhaps you don't remember a single thing Homer or Shakespeare wrote either.
Cringely produced the print equivalent of clickbait, on a regular basis. I remain appalled that
Cringely ( IIRC that's not even the guy's real name ) was ever paid for the garbage he wrote.
Mossberg, on the other hand, was a journalist who was one of the most reliably accurate writers
of all those who covered tech in the English language. I think you will find that people who have
been around tech for more than a few years would tend overwhelmingly to share my opinion of Mossberg's
work.