I didn&#x27;t use the term &quot;rando&quot;and I agree it&#x27;s not really fair.  And I&#x27;m glad Forbes does have disclosures although I&#x27;m not sure how useful they are to casual readers to discern biases of one sort or another. All I can say is that, in the technology space, there are or at least have been writers who take a consistent point of view that happens to line up with various business relationships they have or have had. True, that point of view may be one they&#x27;d have anyway given that people tend to work with companies whose strategies and worldview they agree with.<p>As for your other points, they seem to boil down to &quot;it&#x27;s just the way the world is.&quot; I suppose that&#x27;s true in many cases although I could certainly name quite a variety of pubs both online and offline, which have managed not to embrace the dark side of modern publishing quite so enthusiastically.