I always saw Silicon Valley inevitably being covered and cared about as much as the Hollywood insidery cabal of power and influence. As much as we believe in the ideas, teams, executions, it's still very much an old boys network. Don't fool yourself otherwise. The community upturns its nose constantly about gossip or fluff. But you don't get it, that's all there really is. Gossip and fluff. Tech reporting is as dry a…
In the tech industry we definitely make celebrities of the wrong people. I can't recall a single other industry where journalists are the top-tier talent attraction, and I can't explain why that is. The closest in influence is perhaps the top editors in fashion - but otherwise we are in a league of our own (I have seen small-time contributors to Techcrunch get mobbed at tech events). I have watched new tech bloggers…
Back in the last bubble analysts like (the disgraced) Henry Blodget and Mary Meeker just to name two got plenty of celebrity.
Added: Ok they weren't journalists (Blodget is now) but it was similar in that they became part of the dot com success story by creating it.