Rory Cellan-Jones would be a shoo-in for this gig.
Apple seeks fawning 'journalists' for in-house 'news' self pluggery
Apple is hiring journos for its latest Apple News venture, a move that will presumably mean it is bringing some of the mountains of breathless product announcement coverage in-house. According to a job advert, Apple is looking for editors to help identify and deliver "the best in breaking national, global, and local news". …
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Tuesday 16th June 2015 13:26 GMT SuccessCase
"Not surprisingly, the ad fails to mention anything about independent journalism. So when news breaks about its nemesis Google's Android, or factory conditions in China, we can be sure Apple News will be scrupulous in its complete lack of coverage."
The Register can hardly throw stones. When one of your articles was asking for a fact checker to maintain journalistic standards and I commented that it must be to weed out the facts as on many occasions The Register couldn't resist putting snark before fact, one of your journo's replied that I was talking nonsense. I then replied cited multiple instances of factual errors where The Register had done just that (on my part without snark, emotional language or rudeness - it only took me a minute to find quite a few problem cases) and he censored the comment. Mind you I did then send a rather rude follow up comment but by that time it was warranted. Any journo's who suppress facts stated in an objective without personal insult or malice, are pretty shoddy journo's have a very weak grasp of the nobility of their profession. Oh and, hypocrisy.
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Wednesday 17th June 2015 10:22 GMT Robert Carnegie
Re: Mike Ash
I don't know if his blog is running on an Apple-owned server including one where Apple took the company over; if it is then he probably already consented to whatever they want to do with the data, and an opt-out option is a courtesy that is not legally necessary. I don't know that for a fact, but it's how many technology companies operate, and Apple especially. The United Kingdom's Data Protection law may be different, but most likely the data isn't held in the United Kingdom.
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Tuesday 16th June 2015 14:38 GMT Otto is a bear.
Re: Drop the dead donkey
I can see it now, Damien crouching in a gutter in down town Cupertino, dodging bullets left right and centre, whilst reporting on the plight of poor saps duped into buying inferior (non-Apple) products, and having their lives fall apart.
Pan out to reveal man setting off fire crackers on the sidewalk.
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Tuesday 16th June 2015 15:19 GMT Anonymous Coward
Interesting conflict of interest in reporting this..
It is going to be interesting to see how the news providers react to this when this goes live (including The Register). After all, it's potential competition.
It will be interesting to see how independent their tech reporting will be (if the go that route) - there's quite some potential for burning their fingers there because neutrality os hard to achieve, and even harder to convince other people of ..
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Tuesday 16th June 2015 17:16 GMT FrankAlphaXII
They may be doing this to have fake press conferences where Apple Employees are "journalists". FEMA got in some serious trouble with world+dog when they found out they were doing this at press conferences following some wildfires in California in 2007. I'm serious about that.
However, if Apple has a fake press conference it would applauded as something innovative from corporate communications. Compare to when FEMA did it, with the bad ol Government trying to fake people out before they put em on death trains. Gotta love people's fuckin' priorities and their level of paranoia.
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