Sorry to report, Nick Denton _started_ Lifehacker. It was always a Gawker property. Kind of tainted it for me.
Staged Calls on G4's TSS
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Just so it's clear, this is never something I would have countenanced when I was managing editor of The Screen Savers. And I know that my successor, Patrick Norton, would have brained anyone who suggested such a thing.
We did sometimes pre-book calls - and I do it now on the Canadian version of Call for Help - for production reasons. But I always hated even doing that. I never do it on my radio show. But far worse is using "actors" to ask canned questions. That's just plain lying.
Speaking as "one of the two guys" on The Screen Savers (the flagship show on TechTV) we've never received pressure in any direction from ANYONE in management. We have a remarkably free hand editorially. I like to think that's because ownership and management realize that a truly objective channel is more valuable to the audience, and presumably more successful as a result.
I'm a UNIX/OS X/Open Source bigot, but we ALWAYS call it as we see it, which sometimes means we say good things about Microsoft, too. Even though that makes me cringe.
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Sorry to report, Nick Denton _started_ Lifehacker. It was always a Gawker property. Kind of tainted it for me.
Just so it's clear, this is never something I would have countenanced when I was managing editor of The Screen Savers. And I know that my successor, Patrick Norton, would have brained anyone who suggested such a thing.
We did sometimes pre-book calls - and I do it now on the Canadian version of Call for Help - for production reasons. But I always hated even doing that. I never do it on my radio show. But far worse is using "actors" to ask canned questions. That's just plain lying.
Unfortunately, it doesn't surprise me.
Speaking as "one of the two guys" on The Screen Savers (the flagship show on TechTV) we've never received pressure in any direction from ANYONE in management. We have a remarkably free hand editorially. I like to think that's because ownership and management realize that a truly objective channel is more valuable to the audience, and presumably more successful as a result.
I'm a UNIX/OS X/Open Source bigot, but we ALWAYS call it as we see it, which sometimes means we say good things about Microsoft, too. Even though that makes me cringe.