Comments on: Palm Pre Launch… So What (UPDATED) http://joebustillos.com/2009/06/06/palm-pre-launch-so-what/ Pop culture, Artistic Musings & Being an Adolescent 40-Something Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:00:40 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: joe.bustillos http://joebustillos.com/2009/06/06/palm-pre-launch-so-what/comment-page-1/#comment-1714 joe.bustillos Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:17:47 +0000 http://joebustillos.com/?p=2487#comment-1714 This might be true for you or I, but Laporte doesn't need anyone's favor or as the kid's say, the LOLs. After over thirty-years in the tech journalist business he knows that all he has is his integrity, so playing the flat-out favor game with the PR folks is death. I've watched him going back to the ZD-TV days and the worse that I can accuse him of is the occasional soft-ball question or sometimes being too nice to his guests, but that's almost always because he's trying to have a conversation with tech folks who are engineers and designers and not used to this thing called dialogue. I much prefer this approach versus the all to too typical AM talk-radio blow-hards who confuse irritation and their opinion with "getting the truth," and don't give a shit about their audience or their guests. That Laporte would blow up, after all the years I've watched him, only points to how much Arrington didn't ask the question for "truth's sake," but because Arrington already believed that anyone who had a pre-release Pre was a PR shill, because, of course, he didn't get a pre-release unit. That's immature. That's LOL-baiting. But, for some folks, that's just business. So, I don't agree with you that they all do it, but enough play the favor game or the link/LOL bait game, this I listen all the more to journalists, like Laporte, who doesn't. jbb This might be true for you or I, but Laporte doesn’t need anyone’s favor or as the kid’s say, the LOLs. After over thirty-years in the tech journalist business he knows that all he has is his integrity, so playing the flat-out favor game with the PR folks is death. I’ve watched him going back to the ZD-TV days and the worse that I can accuse him of is the occasional soft-ball question or sometimes being too nice to his guests, but that’s almost always because he’s trying to have a conversation with tech folks who are engineers and designers and not used to this thing called dialogue. I much prefer this approach versus the all to too typical AM talk-radio blow-hards who confuse irritation and their opinion with “getting the truth,” and don’t give a shit about their audience or their guests. That Laporte would blow up, after all the years I’ve watched him, only points to how much Arrington didn’t ask the question for “truth’s sake,” but because Arrington already believed that anyone who had a pre-release Pre was a PR shill, because, of course, he didn’t get a pre-release unit. That’s immature. That’s LOL-baiting. But, for some folks, that’s just business. So, I don’t agree with you that they all do it, but enough play the favor game or the link/LOL bait game, this I listen all the more to journalists, like Laporte, who doesn’t. jbb

]]> By: lrd http://joebustillos.com/2009/06/06/palm-pre-launch-so-what/comment-page-1/#comment-1712 lrd Sun, 07 Jun 2009 06:28:04 +0000 http://joebustillos.com/?p=2487#comment-1712 I agree with Mike. The whole idea is pretty simple- want to get visitors to your blog or podcast, then give a favorable review or else the company in question and other going forward won't be sending you an early version of anything. In short, self serving. Walt Mossberg at the WSJ plays the same game. They all do. I agree with Mike. The whole idea is pretty simple- want to get visitors to your blog or podcast, then give a favorable review or else the company in question and other going forward won’t be sending you an early version of anything.

In short, self serving. Walt Mossberg at the WSJ plays the same game. They all do.

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