Anil DashOne of the most irritating current tech industry trends is the feigned martyrdom and grievance politics of pretending media is *too* critical of tech. Journalists have been too soft on big tech! And worse, the crybaby behavior about it has spread from the thin-skinned VCs to all kinds of early-career folks. Exact same propaganda technique as MAGA.
jimray@anildash It’s so frustrating to hear things like “media has an institutional anti-tech bias!!!”
One, yes, that’s literally the job, to be skeptical of power, especially at times of huge social change.
Two, they aren’t out to get “tech” — no one’s railing against HTTP or the concept of machine learning. The, as you note, far-too-late reckoning is all about how corporations use tech to make life for ordinary people worse.
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