Is he though or is this an attempt to discredit a competitor? This guy is a journalism in a era when newspapers and other forms of tradition media are dying. Journalism is seen as a joke, partisan, propaganda, and even an enemy of the State by large swatches of the public.
That's because he's not saying anything intelligent.
Reporters sometime pressure a source to give them a negative sentence so they can bring balance to an article. It means nothing except that the reporter didn't want to seem one sided.
The problem here is not that the journalist is human, had an opinion, or has shown a little emotion, the problem is that he mindlessly bashed subjects of his reports revealing bias that is most likely crippling his ability to properly do the job and apparently influencing published materials.
Based on his professional behaviour he’s as much a journalist as the writers for the National Enquirer. That is, he has a penchant for selectively burying information when it suits him.
I didn't gather that at all from the storify. He seemed to enjoy people getting all worked up over the content of the papers and the attention it was gaining.
He's more journalist than most. Reprinting Twitter spats and press releases does not make you a journalist. Publishing newsworthy information in the public interest does.
It’s normal for journalists to look for human narratives. He makes it sound like it’s some conspiracy that an OSS project lacks a good PR team to craft & communicate a good narrative. Journalists can still dig in to find the stories… even when the projects are hostile to it.
Just look at the Dwarf Fortress: a small project that’s hacker made w/ an anti-gaming mainstream UI and not backed by monied elites but still has multiple fascinating journo friendly stories about it.
He appears to be acting as an investigative reporter. Such acts have a long history of naming and shaming people, even ones that were not previously public figures. That he writes for his own publication is not really material to the fact that he is acting as a reporter.
calling that guy a journalist is hilariously disingenuous. the guy that has been caught doctoring and falsely editing literally everything that he has produced?
He's catering to an audience of hateful people that can't even eat breakfast without it being in bad faith. He is weeks away from an expose telling you that actually the confederacy landed on the moon first.
Being a contrarian fool that argues blindly without accepting or understanding reality and context is de rigueur on this website, it's disgusting
and telling as to why the industry is so self-serving and fraud-ridden
You'll notice that this particular journalist is seen as very polarizing (you love him, or you hate him).
That's shows he's doing his job well.
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