Chrisann Brennan on Steve Jobs
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Chrisann Brennan on Steve Jobs
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Re: Chrisann Brennan on Steve Jobs
#2Although the tabloid could hardly have framed this article in a viler way, what Brennan actually wrote is reflective and poignant and deserves to be read. If there's another URL we can switch to, we'd be happy to (I tried but couldn't find one).
If you comment on this article, please be charitable and please stick to what's interesting about it.
Re: Chrisann Brennan on Steve Jobs
#3Although the tabloid could hardly have framed this article in a viler way, what Brennan actually wrote is reflective and poignant and deserves to be read. If there's another URL we can switch to, we'd be happy to (I tried but couldn't find one). If you comment on this article, please be charitable and please stick to what's interesting about it.
It appears to be an excerpt from Ms. Brennan's memoir, approved for republication for the Mail: Chrisann Brennan, 2015. "The Bite In The Apple: A Memoir Of My Life With Steve Jobs"
Re: Chrisann Brennan on Steve Jobs
#4Just checking: You know that a bunch of people took Nazi propaganda, changed the word "Jew" to "migrant", and posted it to the Daily Mail comment section, and that those comments were upvoted by DM readers?
https://medium.com/@bestofthemail/i-was-upvoted-for-posting-...
And, scarily, the Nazi propaganda was mild in contrast to other comments openly calling for the murder of migrants?
Look at the upvotes on these comments: https://twitter.com/DMReporter/status/650656856529092608
DM engages in the worst kind of click-bait. They are the scum of the earth.
Posting links to the Daily Mail on HN is like flinging excrement at your readers.
Re: Chrisann Brennan on Steve Jobs
#5Just checking: You know that a bunch of people took Nazi propaganda, changed the word "Jew" to "migrant", and posted it to the Daily Mail comment section, and that those comments were upvoted by DM readers? https://medium.com/@bestofthemail/i-was-upvoted-for-posting-... And, scarily, the Nazi propaganda was mild in contrast to other comments openly calling for the murder of migrants? Look at the upvotes on these comm…
As I'm sure you know, the relation between article quality and site quality is complicated.
HN's approach is to focus on the quality of the article, because that's what maximizes interestingness for the reader. We penalize sites that mostly produce bad articles, but we override that penalty for the occasional good one, which this is. I'm happy to change the URL if there's a better one but I don't think it makes sense for HN readers not to see Brennan's remarkable piece.
Re: Chrisann Brennan on Steve Jobs
#6Ick, ick, ick. I wish I could downvote this. I stopped reading when it became clear what Brennan was doing - betraying a lot of confidences with Jobs to make a lot of money. I believe that he was often genuinely awful, and for all I know, Brennan could have been cheated out of a lot of money. But there are things in here that could hurt Jobs' wife and kids. Brennan should be ashamed.
Re: Chrisann Brennan on Steve Jobs
#7Ick, ick, ick. I wish I could downvote this. I stopped reading when it became clear what Brennan was doing - betraying a lot of confidences with Jobs to make a lot of money. I believe that he was often genuinely awful, and for all I know, Brennan could have been cheated out of a lot of money. But there are things in here that could hurt Jobs' wife and kids. Brennan should be ashamed.
Almost everything in there has already been reported many times and is well known. She's not 'betraying a lot of confidences' not that she owes much to someone who treated her so poorly.
Re: Chrisann Brennan on Steve Jobs
#8Ick, ick, ick. I wish I could downvote this. I stopped reading when it became clear what Brennan was doing - betraying a lot of confidences with Jobs to make a lot of money. I believe that he was often genuinely awful, and for all I know, Brennan could have been cheated out of a lot of money. But there are things in here that could hurt Jobs' wife and kids. Brennan should be ashamed.
The abandoned mother of the abandoned child of a multimillionaire is justified in recounting any awful behavior she cares to recount.
Re: Chrisann Brennan on Steve Jobs
#9Also interesting on a related note- "Steve Jobs made Warner Music sue my startup" https://medium.com/startup-study-group/steve-jobs-made-warne...
Re: Chrisann Brennan on Steve Jobs
#10Just checking: You know that a bunch of people took Nazi propaganda, changed the word "Jew" to "migrant", and posted it to the Daily Mail comment section, and that those comments were upvoted by DM readers? https://medium.com/@bestofthemail/i-was-upvoted-for-posting-... And, scarily, the Nazi propaganda was mild in contrast to other comments openly calling for the murder of migrants? Look at the upvotes on these comm…
Another point of view: Daily Mail is trashy, but at least it does not display the sanctimony of something like that Medium experiment linked above.
I am fine with it.