Why Apple fans hate tech reporters

Note: Over the next few days in Machinist, I’ll be running excerpts from my new book, “True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society.” The book argues that new communications technologies are loosening the culture’s grip on what people once called “objective reality.” Here, I discuss one aspect of this trend, why people are quick to see bias in the news. Excerpted from “True Enough” by Farhad Manjoo (Wiley, 2008) In the fall of 2004, Walt Mossberg, the Wall Street Journal’s influenti
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