{"id":804,"date":"2008-04-30T04:34:54","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T09:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/30\/appalling-journalism-that-is-itwire"},"modified":"2008-04-30T04:34:54","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T09:34:54","slug":"appalling-journalism-that-is-itwire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/30\/appalling-journalism-that-is-itwire","title":{"rendered":"Appalling journalism that is iTWire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I am not a <a href=\"http:\/\/bethesignal.org\/\">Jeff Waugh<\/a> apologist (disclaimer: he&#8217;s a friend of mine, whom I met through the open source community), I find this kind of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwire.com\/content\/view\/17924\/1090\/\">journalism<\/a>, simply <i><b>appalling<\/b><\/i>. <\/p>\n<p><i>Five<\/i> whole pages over the running of a Planet? With pulling out details from the archives of lists? It clearly looks like Sam Varghese is a little bored these days. And iTWire, which is on my &#8220;daily&#8221; to read list, is on the verge of being removed. Its becoming drivel.<\/p>\n<p>If Jeff was really doing a bad job, and this is after all the open source world, where is the fork of Planet GNOME?<\/p>\n<p>P\/S: For added value, read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwire.com\/content\/view\/17924\/1090\/1\/4\/\">comments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Appalling%20journalism%20that%20is%20iTWire&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F04%2F30%2Fappalling-journalism-that-is-itwire&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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