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We should do exactly what the OP says because that's the whole point of news outlets. Bloomberg stood by that piece and never commented on it, they just ignored. I don't see a reason why I should trust the same outlet.

I'm happy reading their opinion pieces (by matt levine) but I see no reason to not dismiss their usual lets-see-if-we-are-right stuff.




In this case, it is Mark Gurman preciously of 9to5mac. He has a very stellar reputation for being correct on this stuff and has for nearly a decade.

Bloomberg sucks, but he’s still Mark.


> We should do exactly what the OP says because that's the whole point of news outlets.

Not really. The whole point of news outlets is to provide information for you to process. It makes no sense to leave out any objective reasoning from the task to jump into whitelisting or blacklist entire publications based on whether you were able to point any random issue somewhere in the past. Either the information is valid or accurate, or it isn't. It makes zero sense to claim that the work of author X should be blindly ignored just because you found an issue with a single piece written by author Y years ago.


Mistakes will be made.

If Bloomberg (or whomever) owned it, and shared their post mortem, I'd applaud their intellectual honesty.




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