Just How Did Apple “Journalism” Get This Bad?

I don't really have any comments on Apple's quarterly report. Whether they're the number one or two biggest company in the world doesn't seem like a big difference to me and I don't expect them to invent new markets every two years. but Gruber linked to this article and I thought it applied to more than just anti-Apple tech writing and I liked the definition of Journalism. Just How Did Apple “Journalism” Get This Bad?

"When I learned to be a journalist, we had one rule: We did what was the right thing for the readers. That sometimes meant annoying companies like Apple, if ‘doing the right thing for the readers’ meant giving them details of an unannounced Mac. Sometimes it meant giving large advertisers bad reviews. But whatever it meant, it always meant giving them the truth: facts we found out, put into context so the readers could understand what was going on better.

By those standards, David Gewirtz’s piece over at ZDNet entitled ‘iOS developers abandoning sinking Apple mothership: biggest drop ever’ isn’t just bad journalism. It’s beyond that. It’s anti-journalism. Where journalism is about fact, Gewirtz brings us speculation. Where journalism adds context to make things clearer, Gewirtz removes it in order to make things more difficult to understand."