I was surprised at how shallow and uninformative the article was, especially after so much time had gone into it, and how it had attracted so much pre-publication interest. The article shows the reader almost nothing about what makes SSC interesting, instead spending most of its paragraphs hunting for or alluding to evidence of possible wrongthink. There’s a quality pop-news profile to be written about Scott, his blog, and the community that respects it, but the New York Times didn’t seem to even try to write it. A missed opportunity and a blot on their reputation.
I was surprised at how shallow and uninformative the article was, especially after so much time had gone into it, and how it had attracted so much pre-publication interest. The article shows the reader almost nothing about what makes SSC interesting, instead spending most of its paragraphs hunting for or alluding to evidence of possible wrongthink. There’s a quality pop-news profile to be written about Scott, his blog, and the community that respects it, but the New York Times didn’t seem to even try to write it. A missed opportunity and a blot on their reputation.
Yeah. It really made the New Yorker piece shine in comparison.
Link for the curious: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/slate-star-codex-and-silicon-valleys-war-against-the-media
Yeah, they did not even tried to discuss what could make it attractive in the first place, too busy looking for trace of sexism, racism and stuff.