“CEO said a thing” journalism
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“CEO said a thing” journalism
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#2Also "some minority group is concerned about something" journalism.
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#3This is ultimately a consequence of the attention economy, which is absolutely harmful for most everyone in the long term, with the exception of, you know, Elon, Sam, Mark and the like.
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#4It is at least entertaining when certain CEOs speak off-the-cuff and reveal they have no clue what they are talking about.
Jensen thinks DLSS 5 works at "the geometry level", for instance. Oh and he pays engineers $500,000 to spend $250,000 on Claude tokens.
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#5I'm confident this phenomenon exists in other industries too.
Is there a term that's equivalent to "reactionary" but applies to leftist/liberal ideals or is it fine for me to start referring to this kind of writing as "reactionary" save that I apply some sort of qualifier like "leftist" or "liberal" before or afterwards?
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#6Also "some minority group is concerned about something" journalism.
That's still more interesting than what some sociopath rich person without a real clue says.
Re: “CEO said a thing” journalism
#7Also "some minority group is concerned about something" journalism.
"[Thing] happened and [group] are furious!" journalism
Re: “CEO said a thing” journalism
#8I'm confident this phenomenon exists in other industries too. Is there a term that's equivalent to "reactionary" but applies to leftist/liberal ideals or is it fine for me to start referring to this kind of writing as "reactionary" save that I apply some sort of qualifier like "leftist" or "liberal" before or afterwards?
im not sure what about this makes it left reactionary but I suppose left reactionary would be the term
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#9It is at least entertaining when certain CEOs speak off-the-cuff and reveal they have no clue what they are talking about. Jensen thinks DLSS 5 works at "the geometry level", for instance. Oh and he pays engineers $500,000 to spend $250,000 on Claude tokens.
It doesn't reveal that they have no clue of what they're talking about. They know that a good number of idiot CEOs will hear this and dictate their engineers spend more claude/codex money, which benefits them.
Jensen isn't an idiot, he's capitalizing on the market.
Re: “CEO said a thing” journalism
#10I'm confident this phenomenon exists in other industries too. Is there a term that's equivalent to "reactionary" but applies to leftist/liberal ideals or is it fine for me to start referring to this kind of writing as "reactionary" save that I apply some sort of qualifier like "leftist" or "liberal" before or afterwards?
I fail to see any connections between this piece and Reaction, even tenuous ones.
Also, what would define a "leftist reactionary" anyway? An opposition to social conservatism? That's already the left's stance.
> is it fine for me to start referring to this kind of writing as "reactionary"
I really don't understand what's wrong with asking journalists to do their damn jobs and spend even a tiny amount of time checking the validity of what the people they're quoting are saying. Don't remove their statement, just point at the various potential ways they're misleading/wrong.
Journalists better start doing this basic part of their job again lest you want to be ruled by shameless incompetent buffoons that go unchallenged. Oh wait...