That intro on the Musk piece was ridiculous. I know it is in the headline genre, but try to control your tendency to shriek about things. And, by the way, Walter Isaacson is not Musk. He’s a guy with an agenda. Everything he writes comes with his agenda.
That intro on the Musk piece was ridiculous. I know it is in the headline genre, but try to control your tendency to shriek about things. And, by the way, Walter Isaacson is not Musk. He’s a guy with an agenda. Everything he writes comes with his agenda.
Well, I don't watch MSNBC and would run screaming from the execrable Mika and her mush mouth co-host if they popped up on my TV. That said, I have read several of Isaacson's bios and there are generally informative. You just need to have your BS detector turned on as you read.
Isaacson has an amazing ability to secure “authorised” biographies but he is a mediocre writer who badly needs a stringent editor; the repetition in his books is irritating and the “insights” are fatuous. In person, he takes himself VERY seriously.
I would argue the BS detectors should be up and running every single time you read anything written by anyone at any time. I enjoy watching Musk and seeing what he is up to, and I certainly think the Twitter files story was an important one, but he is still a man with his own agenda who has little or nothing to do with my best interests.
Why ever would you expect a total stranger to have anything to do with "[your] best interests"?
If your point was everyone has an agenda, well, that's a trivial observation. If rather you are making some sort of political statement, it isn't very clear.
That intro on the Musk piece was ridiculous. I know it is in the headline genre, but try to control your tendency to shriek about things. And, by the way, Walter Isaacson is not Musk. He’s a guy with an agenda. Everything he writes comes with his agenda.
Dispassionate journalism does not exist, and in reality, it never HAS! Everyone writes through a filter, even the best of them (a very small club!).
True. But there were at least journalistic standards imposed by powerful editors at newspapers and in newsrooms. Now they just retweet.
Well, I don't watch MSNBC and would run screaming from the execrable Mika and her mush mouth co-host if they popped up on my TV. That said, I have read several of Isaacson's bios and there are generally informative. You just need to have your BS detector turned on as you read.
Isaacson has an amazing ability to secure “authorised” biographies but he is a mediocre writer who badly needs a stringent editor; the repetition in his books is irritating and the “insights” are fatuous. In person, he takes himself VERY seriously.
I would argue the BS detectors should be up and running every single time you read anything written by anyone at any time. I enjoy watching Musk and seeing what he is up to, and I certainly think the Twitter files story was an important one, but he is still a man with his own agenda who has little or nothing to do with my best interests.
Why ever would you expect a total stranger to have anything to do with "[your] best interests"?
If your point was everyone has an agenda, well, that's a trivial observation. If rather you are making some sort of political statement, it isn't very clear.
I'm sorry that happened to you. Thoughts and prayers.
Is she still bleeding from the face lift?