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March 18, 2008
What's up with reporters?
What's up with reporters? CNET's Gordon Haff writes: "Silverlight is most notably a competitor to the Adobe Integrated Runtime." Now, how can reporters get this wrong so consistently? I see two possible types of answers: (a) they really don't understand the difference between a browser plugin and something which goes beyond-the-browser; or (b) they're touched by Microsoft to deliberately confuse choices until Microsoft can gain some time. Duncan Riley had a similar headline at TechCrunch last month, and was widely corrected, yet failed to engage in the conversation. I've heard lots of anecdotes of Adobe staff visiting reporters or sites and hearing "Microsoft was just here, and they told us that Silverlight beats Flex, or beats AIR, or whatever." None of that's on the record though, and hearsay doesn't count. But we do see TechCrunch, CNET, and similar sites just plain get things wrong, and then not work to fix their reporting errors. Why? How do they reach such flawed propaganda as "Silverlight competes with AIR"? What's the real story here...?
Posted by JohnDowdell at March 18, 2008 7:51 AM
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