Ooh! The media! We're supposed to blindly trust their reporting even though they get wrong everything we know about personally, right?
Clarification from Julie Ann Horvath describing everything TechCrunch misrepresented in 3... 2... 1...
(The real situation may be better or worse. TechCrunch may have left out info that helps or damns GitHub. But you're naive if you think a journalist would report on a story like this accurately.)
It would be enlightening to see case studies of instances where anyone in tech tried leveraging journalists to solve career problems.
Over the long term, I am suspicious that volunteering yourself as a subject in someone else's narrative does not do you any favors. It'd be nice to see an analysis on how this kind of response benefits or hurts the subject personally, professionally or emotionally.
Clarification from Julie Ann Horvath describing everything TechCrunch misrepresented in 3... 2... 1...
(The real situation may be better or worse. TechCrunch may have left out info that helps or damns GitHub. But you're naive if you think a journalist would report on a story like this accurately.)