Fake Steve Jobs points to the NYT's kid-gloves piece on Zynga, published the same week as bloggers exposed Zynga's scummy doings, as reason number one for Big Print's Decline: "The truth is, if newspapers want to survive they should go back to doing what they started out doing -- muckraking, stirring the shit, calling bullshit."
Fake Steve Jobs v. NYT over Zynga-gate
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Ha! I actually pointed out the Time's article to my girlfriend, and noted that it didn't mention the games' scammy yuckiness, after just having read about it two days earlier. It was very odd.
How appropriate of Dan Lyons, the experienced hagiographer of SCO.
WTF is wrong with that link? The styles aren't rendering.
Meh, both were scooped by somebody in South Carolina:
http://news.sc/2009/10/19/company-using-facebook-to-scam-children/ .
Oops, looks like he posted an apology one post later.
http://www.fakesteve.net/2009/11/ny-times-fights-back.html
Way to go NYT - you bought yourself another week of relevance!
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