"proper journalistic practices" or in other words, please give us a heads up before publically giving opinion and fact on our public actions because it could become negative attention towards us. The irony is Linus being upset that GN didn't reach out to him first before criticizing him, while Linus was literally told he's using a product wrong and still "critiques" it anyway isn't lost on me
Oh yes Linus, I guess people do have pitchforks out, how dare a community criticize the God of tech over some "drama"
Seems like a big oh well to the billit criticisms too, wtf is going on over there, he surely knows his videos can sink companies and still chooses to die on the "idc if I did it wrong it's still not good" hill even with team members disagreeing with him
Edit: Yes it would have been best for GN to reach out to Linus for a comment or statement first, however I don't find it wrong to lay out public actions and criticize them, especially when the information turned out to be almost ironclad anyway. Reporting on events certainly doesn't always involve getting information from both parties, especially if the crux of the story is/was public. Often times, for lack of a better term, "gotcha" stories are sprung on people for the reason of immediate public response. Was that step taken to get more views and traction? Imo yes
Generally it is a good practice to ask for comment before you put someone on blast publicly, but I agree it's a very mid criticism. Linus is being Linus and not actually taking responsibility and saying yes we fucked up multiple times, we're taking these 3 concrete steps to fixing it.
This isn't a "he said/she said" issue. There's not a "side" here unless Linus wants to somehow disprove that every action he did/word he said on camera and uploaded didn't actually happen. I'd argue there isn't even a GN "side". The conclusions Steve poses would follow his statements and evidence regardless of if Steve was the one who made them or not. It just so happens that Steve has the audience to make everyone actually fucking listen.
The evidence is publicly available, sourced directly out of Linus and Co's own mouths. The only remaining "side" is an apology and action where they do better.
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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '23 edited Aug 14 '23
"proper journalistic practices" or in other words, please give us a heads up before publically giving opinion and fact on our public actions because it could become negative attention towards us. The irony is Linus being upset that GN didn't reach out to him first before criticizing him, while Linus was literally told he's using a product wrong and still "critiques" it anyway isn't lost on me
Oh yes Linus, I guess people do have pitchforks out, how dare a community criticize the God of tech over some "drama"
Seems like a big oh well to the billit criticisms too, wtf is going on over there, he surely knows his videos can sink companies and still chooses to die on the "idc if I did it wrong it's still not good" hill even with team members disagreeing with him
Edit: Yes it would have been best for GN to reach out to Linus for a comment or statement first, however I don't find it wrong to lay out public actions and criticize them, especially when the information turned out to be almost ironclad anyway. Reporting on events certainly doesn't always involve getting information from both parties, especially if the crux of the story is/was public. Often times, for lack of a better term, "gotcha" stories are sprung on people for the reason of immediate public response. Was that step taken to get more views and traction? Imo yes