Comment by simonw
1 month ago
I imagine they forgot to explicitly list that because avoiding undisclosed paid promotions is so baked into the ethics of journalism that saying it out loud didn't cross their minds.
1 month ago
I imagine they forgot to explicitly list that because avoiding undisclosed paid promotions is so baked into the ethics of journalism that saying it out loud didn't cross their minds.
A: it looks like this article is no more than an ad
B: Oh noes, it can't be, they have specific policy against that!
A: That policy actually does not have anything about this.
B: Ah, that's because they are so ethical that they didn't even think to mention this in their policy!
Sure, this sounds extremely convincing.
(and of course, nobody ever ignored or tiptoed around a written policy, ever)
I think an important piece of media literacy is being able to tell if a publication is likely to follow journalistic ethics or not. SF Standard pass that test for me.
What is the value of this piece? Who benefits from people reading it?
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Injecting Gaza, assault rifles and vague implication of conspiracy (with Jews lurking on the background because you must respect the founding pillars of the genre) into an article that is supposedly about tech startup founder - is exactly what I expect from top ethical journalistic standards. Not.
I mean I get it. Who doesn't have an AI code generation tool now? It's like having a website in the first dotcom boom era (yes, Gandalf, I was there). No pop, no buzz, not hot and juicy enough. But add a little of intifada there, a fight against some murky forces of darkness (that throw hundreds of millions of vc money at the intrepid hero) - and maybe you got something. That's how journalism is done.