This is a good read.

Another issue is that journalist Twitter personas often display a deep antipathy towards the *people* of tech. When you see those names on bylines for stories that are slightly wrong but hugely impactful, it makes you question motives. https://twitter.com/mathewi/status/1281668530535124993

In my personal interactions with these same people, the antipathy isn't there and they are much more open to thoughtful discussion (which is why I don't subscribe to "don't talk to the Times"). The performative pressures of tech media Twitter seem to amplify conflict.

This is combined with the fact that the major media companies cover difficult issues (like political ad regulation) as if those issues only exist for tech platforms and ignore their own role in societal challenges.

Guess which 1st party advertising platform explicitly says "We do not verify, nor do we vouch for, statements of purported fact in advocacy/opinion advertisements"?

Is it the evil Facebook? The hapless Reddit?

Nope, the New York Times Company.

https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2018/12/ADVERTISING-ACCEPTABILITY-2015.pdf

I would have a lot more respect for the NY Times, Washington Post, CNN and NBC's coverage of political ad regulation if every story has a footer that:

a) Linked to their policies
b) Disclosed how much they make in political ads

Also, they need ad archives.

Our team has really struggled with the Facebook Ad Archive, and Google's is a complete disaster (try looking up the Epoch Times ads that dominate political YouTube), but at least they are trying!

We have no idea what's running on the 1st party networks of Vox, WaPo and NYT.

Anyway, obvious personal antipathy + self-interested hypocrisy make for distrust of the tech media, in the same way that man-boy VCs attacking individual female journalists discredits all of Silicon Valley.