The Tale of Theranos and the Mysterious Fire Alarm
I started to write a thoughtful and balanced analysis of this article...but then I stopped myself.The reason I stopped myself is that I thought about all the journalists like this lady who played the same game with Theranos and continue to play similar games with all of the rotten corporate and government entities in the county. Then I started getting genuinely pissed off!What. the. f*ck did I just read?She openly admits to the following:1. She came to the story with a predetermined framing of the story.2. She allowed herself to be bribed with the “treat” of talking to Elizabeth Holmes and then backed off under threat and misdirection while pretending to be immune to such behavior.3. She sat on the story because she couldn’t spin it the way she had intended in advance and allowed herself to be threatened.I am not exaggerating, she literally writes “I lost the story so I moved on...”Lost the story directly translates to: “I knew what I wanted to report and what would get clicks, I didn’t get that so I gave up.”4. She proudly presents this article years after the fact pretending to retroactively have known something was wrong...and to have maintained her journalistic ethics while openly admitting to dropping the story once it didn’t fit the framing she hoped to apply to it.5. She waited until well after the tide of public opinion had turned against Theranos to capitalize on the work of others who actually did the hard journalism to get clicks.This lady should be fired, she is not a journalist. Why should we give her a pass when hundreds of other fake journalists did exactly the same with Theranos? When do we all say: “Enough is enough?”This is everything wrong with American media in one article, the attempts to feign journalistic ethics after the fact while generating more clicks is sickening. People died from Theranos!