A journalist and writer that I truly admire and respect, John Fleck, has the following comment:
“One of the things that smart journalists learn… is intellectual humility. The thing I love about [former tech journalist, now media commentator] Dan Gilmor (who I thought was a good tech journalist) was the way he honestly believed that his readers frequently knew more than he did.”
The notion of a journalist thinking she is in a position to tell the people she’s covering how they ought to do what it is that they do is just frankly bizarre.
He’s right, as usual. There are good tech journalists– usually good writers who cover technology. Most, however, are just uninformed and baseless opinions masquerading as thought. In other words, they’re like this blog– except they demand to be taken seriously and get paid for it.
Secretly Ironic 