I hate to break it to you, but The Guardian is now only a mere shadow of it’s former self. The reporting has been going downhill for years and especially in anything tech-related, it’s journalism can only be described as utterly clueless. It’s been sad to watch.
Old-world journalism in general has relied far too much on outside contractors, especially for technical subjects, who shop their articles around various outlets. It has dragged their reputation down because they no longer have an identity as a collection of like-minded journalists. Instead, it’s the same collection among all of the news sources with varying levels of quality, mostly poor because they can’t make it as real non-contracted journalists. They don’t even report on the same subject all the time, just shifting around to whatever they want to talk about without understanding the subject matter at all.
Not exactly in this case, because this guy is an in-house “media editor” who has no clue what he’s talking about, but generally speaking.
I hate to break it to you, but The Guardian is now only a mere shadow of it’s former self. The reporting has been going downhill for years and especially in anything tech-related, it’s journalism can only be described as utterly clueless. It’s been sad to watch.
Old-world journalism in general has relied far too much on outside contractors, especially for technical subjects, who shop their articles around various outlets. It has dragged their reputation down because they no longer have an identity as a collection of like-minded journalists. Instead, it’s the same collection among all of the news sources with varying levels of quality, mostly poor because they can’t make it as real non-contracted journalists. They don’t even report on the same subject all the time, just shifting around to whatever they want to talk about without understanding the subject matter at all.
Not exactly in this case, because this guy is an in-house “media editor” who has no clue what he’s talking about, but generally speaking.