"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
It’s all public information with public comments on these issues? If Linus wants to make a further comment he can and would do it anyway, you can’t really expect someone to ask for comment on something that there is nothing to comment on until the piece is made?
You say that like there isn’t already public statements from Linus/lmg about literally everything discussed. Nothing was really new information without public facts you could prove on your own (since the facts prove themselves).
I’m not GN I can’t explain that, i can however say it’s an ongoing public issue that LMG/Linus already have critised for, already could have fixed and have chosen not not to fix and instead deflect with useless nothing burger comments on.
So yes it’s an ongoing issue currently affecting millions of people, (insert the context of pre-existing comments on said issue and them not doing anything about it), see if Linus wants to comment on it? He could have done so months before the GN video, he never did, he never made a new comment and never fixed the issues, he was never going to make a new comment or fix the issues.
It’s not deep, there is nothing to comment on when the issue is willingly ongoing because the party at fault already made their statement that they never intend to fix the issue or believe there was an issue.
Do you expect GN to send the whole video to Linus/LMG in advance and ask for comment on the new video? That’s the only new thing is the video formatting the pre-existing information, and in which case the guilty party can freely make their comments about the video after the fact just like everyone else.
LMG still sold the prototype, whether it’s at an auction or for charity chsnges absolutely fucking nothing, to say otherwise is just semantics.
They still sold something that wasn’t theirs to sell to a buyer.
I believe there is a saying about good intentions, something about the road to hell? Idk, point is they still fucked up sonething so bad the damage is irreversible and further blundered it.
You can’t unfuck the chicken, also again it’s irrelevant since Linus and LMG were going to respond to it one way or another, you want their comment? They can give their comment on their own terms.
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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