A Brief Word Regarding Gizmodo’s Continued Lack of Class » TheMacAdvocate:
I’m guessing we all saw it, given that we’re all tuned in to most things Apple. I won’t link to it, because Gizmodo is the tech site equivalent of a Love Canal sturgeon. It’s penned by Douchebag’s Row Member Jesus Diaz, as if you needed any other reason not to seek it out.
The piece in question lists 10 things that would have irked Steve Jobs if he was alive today. I’m not saying you shouldn’t write about Apple’s challenges, but there’s a way of doing it that doesn’t make you look like a piece of shit – which Diaz is, without question. I won’t go into the list, which, true to the form of the author’s body of work, is filled with poorly-written half-truths. What I will do is show you the header graphic.
A quick “what he said” to the MacAdvocate’s piece here. I happened upon the piece in question by accident (I categorically refuse to read Gizmodo; you should refuse to, also) and it pissed me off. Badly written, and I found it factually bogus in any number of ways, starting with a very basic “how dare anyone who hasn’t spent time with Steve Jobs write stuff about how “Steve would hate this” or “Steve would never approve this” — especially since, given that Steve hasn’t been dead that long, at least three of the projects this guy said Steve would never approve had to be things he was involved with and have given approval to along the way. That’s just a basic fact of engineering timelines and scheduled.
So this piece didn’t just annoy and disappoint me, it pissed me off. And I thought about writing a response ripping it, and then I realized that it was Gizmodo, and since I categorically won’t link to them, that made a decision to let it go easy. But since MacAdvocate and Angry Drunk have poked at this ant hill, I wanted to get a kick or three in.
Don’t read Diaz. Don’t read Gizmodo. Please don’t link to them, and don’t waste energy arguing with them, it just feeds the energy monster. Here’s my vote to just pretend they don’t exist. the world will be better off if that comes true some day.
(and for what it’s worth, one thing I’ve been thinking about is whether to hop back into the mosh pit that is Apple Punditry Online. Having watched the circus over Tim Cook’s D10 talk, and realizing I’d have to actually deal with that kind of stuff and take it seriously, and now looking at what Diaz considers journalism in that space — it makes that decision easy, too. Maybe I’ll comment once in a while, but the world just doesn’t need one more blogger geek looking for angles and trying to sound interesting while examining manginess trivia about Apple… right?)
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