[Gllug] Online lapdog

[Rev Simon Rumble]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:48:56PM +0100, Timothy Coggins uttered:

> Not very surprising considering the Gaurdian is the strongest Labour
> supporter out of the Broadsheets.

I doubt that.  Perhaps compared to the Torygraph but it's not really
pro-Labour.  In fact it's more often very critical.

The thing you have to understand about computer journalists is they're
very much underpaid.  People who know their shit get paid much better
working in the corporate world either doing tech work or (if they have
no soul) doing PR than they can working in the journalist gig.  That
means there's a very high turnover of staff leading to lots of young,
inexperienced writers.

They also seem to actively recruit people who know nothing about
computers.

I know, I used to be an IT journalist and got sick of wasting my time
as uncritical morons asked dumb questions at press conferences.  The
junkets and smoked salmon were alright though :)

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Rev Simon Rumble <simon at rumble.net>
www.rumble.net

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