I remember Engadget being "asked" to stop covering jailbreak-requiring iPhone apps.
How Apple’s ‘Blacklist’ Manipulates the Press
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#12Reminds me of when CNET was blacklisted by Google for publishing Schmidt's personal info that was available on Google searches after he downplayed privacy.
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#13Gosh. If I could laugh I would have been doubled over. Does the author really think that Apple put this much thought into not letting certain journalists into new coverage. This is pretty much a thought of a conspiracy theorist, Apple surely doesn't think about communist conspiracies from the 1940s, they merely think you're either a bad journalist or one who is consistently unfair. The detail in which the linked arti…
Companies do maintain black lists in the same way that Hollywood did in response to McCarthy and there is a small industry of "research" to did out info on peoples political and other activities eg raising H&S issues
The construction industry has been doing this for decades in the UK and I bet companies like walmart do it in the USA as well.
If you dont see the problem you need to read up on the industrial history of the USA
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#14Is this a problem? If you write articles saying that you don't like me, I probably won't send you any free stuff or invite you round to my house. They're a consumer electronics and software company, not a government department. If they don't want to talk to you or send you any free stuff, that's up to them and I'm 100% fine with that. Why do you need to visit them or get free equipment from them to write articles any…
It is a problem - just more global. With PR moving into more and more orwellian grounds there should indeed be widespread public education on their practices and how to avoid/protect from them.
And with the crackdown on fake/paid/influenced reviews, shills and other similar stuff seems the society is waking up.
While I strongly condemn limiting the freedom of speech I do think that there should be detailed disclosures on what kind of stuff the person doing the review is getting. And yes early access should be on that list.
Transparency is a potent tool.
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#15'He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.'
- George Orwell.
Re: How Apple’s ‘Blacklist’ Manipulates the Press
#16Gosh. If I could laugh I would have been doubled over. Does the author really think that Apple put this much thought into not letting certain journalists into new coverage. This is pretty much a thought of a conspiracy theorist, Apple surely doesn't think about communist conspiracies from the 1940s, they merely think you're either a bad journalist or one who is consistently unfair. The detail in which the linked arti…
If you know anything about big companies and PR, you would know that much of what he says is true. They do indeed monitor what various media outlets say and create an "enemies list" that will be starved.
Even big and influential media may not escape. Apple doesn't need to cooperate with the normal reporters on the New York Times who ask hard questions about conditions in Chinese factories, they just need to court David Pogue.
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Tries to compare Apple's behaviour to McCarthyism. Hilarious really, the kind of paranoid, whining nonsense that is only taken seriously by witless Apple haters, the sort that downvoted you without comment, presumably.
Why do you think the comparison to McCarthyism is incorrect or inappropriate, let alone laughable? Please note that OP didn't say that Apple's blacklist makes it just as bad as HUAC or Uncle Joe.
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#18He's putting himself on my blacklist by using OnSwipe. How is that shit not dead yet?
You can get rid of it by blocking onswipe.com . But then again you lose the useful filter of seeing which websites still use it.
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#19Apple has a long history of manipulating the press in other ways too.[1][2]
So, this doesn't really surprise me.
[1]http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/apple-prs-dirty-little-secre... [2]http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/how_apple_does_contro...
Re: How Apple’s ‘Blacklist’ Manipulates the Press
#20Now consider how the government does the same thing to the press and how it affects political coverage especially the notion that the media is a check on power.