When working on 2022 article about transgender athletes & elite sports, I called GLAAD. Their officials tried to tell me who I should NOT interview and that I should not "platform" tennis great and gay pioneer Martina Navratilova because her views ran counter to their line.
I regret to inform readers that buying digital apes for $420,000 each did not lead to the long-term gains expected by investors https://t.co/H7k4nOvByg
@BrendanAndrews@arstechnica Only public companies have market caps. Musk converted Twitter into a private company when he bought it. Your Google search is showing you Twitter's market cap from before Musk bought Twitter because it doesn't have one now.
@kevinslife2@arstechnica The second sentence says the app is "designed for Android TV devices." Sounds like you didn't read that far. It also works on Fire TV devices, as I wrote.
As the tragic death of Kaylin Gillis shows, the sad state of telecom infrastructure in rural America means people die because they can't reach 911. https://t.co/Jc014kNjM3
This is a policy choice.
Apparently the FCC challenge process requires journalists to nag Comcast about each mistake. While it's kind of fun, I don't think that solution will fix every bit of false data ISPs submit for the map.
Comcast refused to fix false data on FCC map when residents in two cities filed challenges—it only did so after I contacted Comcast on the residents' behalf. The FCC told me Comcast admitting a mistake shows "the challenge process is working as designed."
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@internetthought I'm not sure if it's jealousy but it's an odd attitude. Another industry reporter who writes like a PR person described my work in a similar way a few years ago. I get the sense they view doing investigative work as being beneath them but I don't know what they're really thinking
This is how a telecom-industry trade pub describes the basic consumer-affairs reporting I do on Comcast: "Ars Technica typically strikes a rather Nader-esque position in regard to the No. 1 ISP in the US, which the regular reader might come to believe manufactures Death Stars"