"[The NYT] decided tech was a major power center that needed scrutiny and needed to be taken down a peg, and this style of coverage became very widespread and prominent in the industry ... the press should try to normalize coverage of the tech industry as just another business sector."
The irony here is that a prominent member of the 'tech industry' (with enthusiastic support from other prominent tech industry luminaries) just bought one of the most important social media networks with the specific intention of making substantial changes to the way information is disseminated in the United States. That may turn out for the best, or it may not -- it doesn't matter.
What does matter: the NYT's decision to focus skeptical reporting on tech as an "important power center" sure seems to have been vindicated.
The irony here is that a prominent member of the 'tech industry' (with enthusiastic support from other prominent tech industry luminaries) just bought one of the most important social media networks with the specific intention of making substantial changes to the way information is disseminated in the United States. That may turn out for the best, or it may not -- it doesn't matter.
What does matter: the NYT's decision to focus skeptical reporting on tech as an "important power center" sure seems to have been vindicated.