The tech press has dared to lean away from its core mission of making technology companies more profitable, says tech advocacy house ITIF.
The industry-funded think tank has cooked up an 18-page report [PDF] that laments what it says is a shift in the media from a “positive” attitude in the 1980s and 1990s to one that is more confrontational in the past two decades.
According to the ITIF, as tech news outlets have meandered from their central mission of hyping up technology and splashing around headlines about companies delivering quality products and treating customers fairly, multi-billion-dollar corporations have found the growing levels of criticism quite inconvenient.
“This report finds that there has been a notable decline in the favorable coverage of technology in the US media,” the think tank claims.
FFS. Seriously?
Tech giants, we’re not your cheerleaders.
I couldn’t have said it better.
Source: Get this: Tech industry thinks journos are too mean. TOO MEAN?! The Register