About this episode

The episode discusses the role of Wired in holding tech executives accountable, contrasting it with the typical cheerleading of technology journalism.

For a certain type of tech executive, and a certain type of fan of tech executives, the point of technology journalism is to cheerfully show off the cool new toys Silicon Valley creates. For the staff of Wired, the point of technology journalism is to hold the most powerful companies and people in our society accountable for the decisions they make. That has made the magazine remarkably unpopular with many people in the tech world (including newly minted trillionaire Elon Musk) and more popul...

Topics covered

• technology journalism
• accountability
• Silicon Valley
• tech executives
• media criticism

Keywords

• Wired
• technology journalism
• Elon Musk
• Silicon Valley
• accountability

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Wired

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