{"id":241,"date":"2007-02-15T18:41:29","date_gmt":"2007-02-15T23:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/02\/15\/technology-journalism-at-its-best\/"},"modified":"2007-02-15T18:44:08","modified_gmt":"2007-02-15T23:44:08","slug":"technology-journalism-at-its-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/02\/15\/technology-journalism-at-its-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology Journalism at Its Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/gadgets\/feature\/horseshoes-and-hand-grenades-joel-johnson-returnsto-spank-us-all-for-supporting-crap-236310.php\">this<\/a> slash and burn effort by Joel Johnson, former editor of Gizmodo, check it out.  A taste, to get you to follow the link:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAnd you guys just ate it up. Kept buying shitty phones and broken media devices green and dripping with DRM. You broke the site, clogging up the pipe like retarded salmon, to read the latest announcements of the most trivial jerk-off products, completely ignoring the stories about technology actually making a difference to real human beings[.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen this slash and burn effort by Joel Johnson, former editor of Gizmodo, check it out. A taste, to get you to follow the link: And you guys just ate it up. Kept buying shitty phones and broken media devices green and dripping with DRM. 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