Racism: The Game
3rd November 2011
Just as Microsoft in the 90s didn’t realize that you had to spread some cash around Washington to keep the jackals off your back, and wound up in a ten-year bogus anti-trust lawsuit, so Michael Arrington didn’t realize that you can’t say anything about race anywhere anytime without the Dogs of the Crust piling on your unworthy carcass, and so is the subject of the latest Two-Minute Hate.
The problems with the interview:
– I was told by CNN it was about startup accelerators, not minorites.
– CNN then created a clip that highlighted me saying I didn’t know any black entrepreneurs, even though later in the conversation I corrected myself.
– CNN then wrote two articles, one of which was the top story on CNN last week, focusing on my race problems.
– Only a very few people have seen it. I haven’t, and I’m in the absurd position of not having seen it myself (to know how they edited the long version) and defending myself from people who also haven’t seen my interview.
And that’s the way these people (using the term loosely) work. They control the horizontal, they control the vertical, and most especially they control the sound, so the only way not to be misquoted is just not to talk to them at all — a difficult program for somebody whose job is talking about tech.
It was a “gotcha” and that’s that.
Yup. Welcome to the jungle.
November 3rd, 2011 at 09:17
Gales of riotous laughter. The fool let himself be interviewed by Pravda, then (more laughter) expected… truth and fairness instead of a heavily-edited hatchet job whose purpose was pursuing CNN’s political goals. Where has this man been the last 20 years?