Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool

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Pëll Dalipi recommended Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool from realdanlyons.com:

Their deal, back in the day, was this: “Pay seven figures a year to buy a corporate subscription to my newsletter and I’ll say nice things about your company, and when the press needs a quote, I’ll be there to puff you up. Or, don’t buy a subscription and I will bash you relentlessly.” Most big companies paid up and considered it a cost of doing business.

Estimated reading time: 9 min

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Noah Doersing recommended Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool from realdanlyons.com:

Silicon Valley once was home to scientists and engineers — people who wanted to build things. Then it became a casino. Now it is being turned into a silicon cesspool, an upside-down world filled with spammers, liars, flippers, privacy invaders, information stealers — and their grubby cadre of paid apologists and pygmy hangers-on.

Estimated reading time: 9 min

Noah Doersing Dan Lyons writes about the problems that have arisen in tech journalism during the past few years. In summary, journalists also being VCs isn't a good thing.

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