[cwilson]

Snark is not a virtue limited to tech journalists. My significant other is a journalist (outside of tech), so we have lots of journalist friends. They are hands down the snarkiest people I know.

It kind of comes with the territory.

[hueving]

It comes with thinking a superficial understanding of lots of things makes you qualified to to belittle others "less enlightened".

[evgen]

Sounds like you just described every HN comment ever: 'Oh, you understand red-black trees and just scanned two Wikipedia articles? Let me hear more about your theories on political economy and your pronouncements on environmental policy regarding the Amazon...'

[npunt]

One person's "superficial understanding of lots of things" is another person's deep understanding of how humans act and how they rationalize their actions, regardless of domain.

[exolymph]

Journalists get bombarded with smarmy bullshit all day. Snark is a coping mechanism.

[iamdave]

Your comment reminds me of a very specific Clark and Dawe skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ue9ek9tTSg