Gee, you’d almost think that the media is as full of crap when “reporting” business news as they are, say, when they “report” something political or maybe the latest Unemployment statistics.
(Do I really need the /sarc????)
Nope, it's the Main Stream Media, tech division.
Gee, you’d almost think that the media is as full of crap when “reporting” business news as they are, say, when they “report” something political or maybe the latest Unemployment statistics.What I note is that many of the websites and news agencies reporting this are omitting the part of the story that it is primarily only the Chinese Apple App Store that is at all affected. The US store has had one, count'em, one app involved. In two of the stories I had to read more than two-thirds of the way through them before before I learned the problem really only existed in China. The headlines strongly imply it is the Apple App Store in this country.
Journalism is entertainment.Journalists flatter their readers that they are interested in what is important, and flatter themselves that they provide it. The reality is quite different; the rules of journalism:
are entertainment rules, not substance rules.
- If it bleeds, it leads
- ”Man Bites Dog” not “Dog Bites Man”
- There’s nothing more worthless than yesterday’s newspaper
In the Founding Era, most newspapers were weeklies, but there were newspapers which had no deadlines at all but went to press when the printer was good and ready (like a FReeper posting something to FR, actually).
Clearly, when you think about it, only talking when you actually think you have something to say - rather than because it is Monday, and almost 10:30 AM EST - is a much more substance-driven approach. Why should I post something against a deadline??? Ridiculous to think of a FReeper doing that!