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Opening an article these days with: > Who knew that Sony’s top brass, a line-up of mostly white male executives, earn $1 million and more a year? is just take advantage of a difficult moment and increase the `hate`. I don't get why this could happen on magazine like Wired... Reading comments on the article seems that statement is pretty unfair. I didn't check myself because I think reading those informations is bad a…
Is this a hack of a division of Sony? Because the executive names I found don't sound white. http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/executive/
Many people suggest that startups not over-optimize on issues like security and performance when it's not their core business. The same could be said of Sony: empathize a little with them. Sony Pictures pays a lot of creative people. Maybe they should have seen the hack coming, but like the PSN outage this story will be maybe a paragraph in a Wikipedia article years from now. Even one great film could be watched by p…
Sony Pictures has an operating income (revenue minus expenses) of $501 million per year. They can afford to pay creatives, but they can't afford to pay for a few more security engineers? Look, I get the creative field costs a lot of money. But Sony Pictures was paying $454,224,070 http://fusion.net/story/30850/ in total salaries as of May. Even hiring 5 more security engineers would have gone a long way. That's $1 mi…
We are arguing here from position of knowledge that guys who make these decisions likely do not have. Should they have it? Probably not, but they definitely should listen to someone who knows and who can present solid risk/cost/benefit analysis that they can understand.
Opening an article these days with: > Who knew that Sony’s top brass, a line-up of mostly white male executives, earn $1 million and more a year? is just take advantage of a difficult moment and increase the `hate`. I don't get why this could happen on magazine like Wired... Reading comments on the article seems that statement is pretty unfair. I didn't check myself because I think reading those informations is bad a…
I used to be this author's editor and that lede is very Wired.
Sad to see this "tone policing" comment is the top-voted comment on this thread.
Opening an article these days with: > Who knew that Sony’s top brass, a line-up of mostly white male executives, earn $1 million and more a year? is just take advantage of a difficult moment and increase the `hate`. I don't get why this could happen on magazine like Wired... Reading comments on the article seems that statement is pretty unfair. I didn't check myself because I think reading those informations is bad a…
Oh, no! Pointing out that a corporate power structure is overwhelming white and male is so unfair to those that are white and male. I used to be this author's editor and that lede is very Wired. Sad to see this "tone policing" comment is the top-voted comment on this thread.
But, yeah, it's definitely silly that the top comment is just complaining about that sentence.
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Oh, no! Pointing out that a corporate power structure is overwhelming white and male is so unfair to those that are white and male. I used to be this author's editor and that lede is very Wired. Sad to see this "tone policing" comment is the top-voted comment on this thread.
I definitely think that it's useful to point out the over-representation of white and male voices in powerful positions (which seems particularly relevant in big media corporations, since it's such a cultural driver), but in this case it's kind of stuck in there without any follow-up or relevant thesis. But, yeah, it's definitely silly that the top comment is just complaining about that sentence.
Opening an article these days with: > Who knew that Sony’s top brass, a line-up of mostly white male executives, earn $1 million and more a year? is just take advantage of a difficult moment and increase the `hate`. I don't get why this could happen on magazine like Wired... Reading comments on the article seems that statement is pretty unfair. I didn't check myself because I think reading those informations is bad a…
Oh, no! Pointing out that a corporate power structure is overwhelming white and male is so unfair to those that are white and male. I used to be this author's editor and that lede is very Wired. Sad to see this "tone policing" comment is the top-voted comment on this thread.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sony Pictures has an operating income (revenue minus expenses) of $501 million per year. They can afford to pay creatives, but they can't afford to pay for a few more security engineers? Look, I get the creative field costs a lot of money. But Sony Pictures was paying $454,224,070 http://fusion.net/story/30850/ in total salaries as of May. Even hiring 5 more security engineers would have gone a long way. That's $1 mi…
Let me rephrase the question here, we could either spend $1m on some gobbledegook that those fast talking nerds saying we need, or we could get bigger bonuses. We worked hard and bonuses would be tangible, when asked about how we will know if $1m expenditure a year is working fast talking nerds talk even more quicker about something that amounts to 'nothing bad will happen'. We are arguing here from position of knowl…
In fact, I'd argue that those big bonuses would imply that they're professionals worth the money, and should be making more robust decisions.
Opening an article these days with: > Who knew that Sony’s top brass, a line-up of mostly white male executives, earn $1 million and more a year? is just take advantage of a difficult moment and increase the `hate`. I don't get why this could happen on magazine like Wired... Reading comments on the article seems that statement is pretty unfair. I didn't check myself because I think reading those informations is bad a…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh, no! Pointing out that a corporate power structure is overwhelming white and male is so unfair to those that are white and male. I used to be this author's editor and that lede is very Wired. Sad to see this "tone policing" comment is the top-voted comment on this thread.
To be frank, it's a stupid lede anyway. It's not like people would be surprised that the CxOs for an entrenched, major company like Sony would be highly-paid and white males. It's basically the default assumption for that demographic.