Swisher may be a powerful snoop. She may even be the "best" tech journalist out there. I still think that tech journalism by and large is either a PR machine or an Entertainment Tonight for Silicon Valley.
Serious tech journalism is lacking - both in the mainstream media and from traditional tech sources.
IMO the topics that are huge issues that have largely gone uncovered (though some have now gained steam):
- Energy Use/Efficiency of tech
- Governance of the Internet
- Privacy (until recently - sort of [and it still gets buried])
- Software copyright issues
- Market/monetary prospects for new tech
(I think the article sort of talks about the fear of
"crushing innovation")
- Energy tech itself (new forms of power generation, batteries)
- Tech in our lives (and I'm not talking about the fear card)
- autonomous vehicles, medical devices, etc.
Simply put, there are huge policy questions and tech issues that the public needs to be educated about and need to be discussed - and very few journalists are doing it.
Serious tech journalism is lacking - both in the mainstream media and from traditional tech sources.
IMO the topics that are huge issues that have largely gone uncovered (though some have now gained steam):
Simply put, there are huge policy questions and tech issues that the public needs to be educated about and need to be discussed - and very few journalists are doing it.