> I'm sorry, but some random nobody at Google having some wrong ideas about diversity policy does not deserve to be national front page news.
Claims of anti-white-male discrimination in tech are man-bites-dog stories, and naturally get more attention for that reason, plus, Damore immediately sought out media with political biases to maximally promote that kind of story. It becoming national front page news and getting the degree of attention it did in part just novelty, and in very large part the foreseeable result of how Damore soguht to promote his story.
> This was a public assassination
No, it wasn't. It was public, but there was no assassination.
Claims of anti-white-male discrimination in tech are man-bites-dog stories, and naturally get more attention for that reason, plus, Damore immediately sought out media with political biases to maximally promote that kind of story. It becoming national front page news and getting the degree of attention it did in part just novelty, and in very large part the foreseeable result of how Damore soguht to promote his story.
> This was a public assassination
No, it wasn't. It was public, but there was no assassination.