Yeah, we’ve fallen behind on updates again. But at least we’re not doing what the Wall Street Journal is doing.
This shot comes from CNET’s Molly Wood. Wood writes, “The death of journalism is nigh when this ‘sourcing’ is on WSJ’s front page.”
Nearly 10,000 iPhone users were accessing the Microsoft employee email system last year, say two people who heard the estimates from senior Microsoft executives.
That’s pretty awful, says one person who heard about the article from a CNET editor.
SFWeekly’s technology editor, Alexia Tsotsis, a new Valleywag favorite, says:
It’s a lot easier to call bullshit nowadays.
Is that because of all the magical search-and-destroy technologies we have nowadays, or is it because there’s a lot more bullshit out there to step in? Alexia?
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Can’t read my, can’t read my, no, you can’t read-uh mah TechCrunch stories written by Dan Brusilovksy.
Michael Arrington‘s (in)famed laptop boy is back in the news again thanks to a public, self-inflicted unmasking (prompted by a light anal probe by 1938 Media) of the fellow who tattled on Brusilovsky. Continue reading
TechCrunch’s Michael A
rrington mounted his high horse again today in a piece called “Why you should confess everything before you get caught.” In it, he calls out InfoWorld’s apology on account of one of its writers who misrepresented his identity.
As laughable as Arrington’s horn tooting was, he goes on to qualify his not disclosing the name of the company that traded former TechCrunch writer (not intern) Daniel Brusilovsky a laptop for press by saying they were “the victims of this whole thing.”
Allow us to get on our horse. Continue reading
The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart took an unlikely shot at blogs last week. Exaggerated headlines really are a problem. It misleads the people who treat news like window shopping. Gloss over some of these headlines, and you’d think everybody hates everybody else, and the world is ending at 6 o’clock.
While misdirection through exaggeration is one problem, misdirection through rumors and half-truths is just as frightening — if not more so. Keep fighting the sensationalists, Stewart, and we’ll keep prodding the rumor mongers.
Picture: Belltown Messenger
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We’re just throwing this out there.
Under AP’s rules, material from anonymous sources may be used only if:
1. The material is information and not opinion or speculation, and is vital to the news report.
2. The information is not available except under the conditions of anonymity imposed by the source.
3. The source is reliable, and in a position to have accurate information.
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Seventeen-year-old Daniel Brusilovsky was publicly humiliated for allegedly cheating on his math test soliciting and accepting expensive gifts in exchange for press on a major online publication.
During his nine-month tenure as TechCrunch intern, Brusilovsky, who Valleywag hailed as the tech boy wonder, supposedly asked for laptops in exchange for writing about certain Web start-ups. (His mea culpa.) Continue reading
So, this is what it’s come to, has it? The most-watched technology news aggregator is pointing to a blog that’s barely a month old and has “rumors” in its name. Bravo.
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