It’s normal for journalists to look for human narratives. He makes it sound like it’s some conspiracy that an OSS project lacks a good PR team to craft & communicate a good narrative. Journalists can still dig in to find the stories… even when the projects are hostile to it.
Just look at the Dwarf Fortress: a small project that’s hacker made w/ an anti-gaming mainstream UI and not backed by monied elites but still has multiple fascinating journo friendly stories about it.
It’s normal for journalists to look for human narratives. He makes it sound like it’s some conspiracy that an OSS project lacks a good PR team to craft & communicate a good narrative. Journalists can still dig in to find the stories… even when the projects are hostile to it.
Just look at the Dwarf Fortress: a small project that’s hacker made w/ an anti-gaming mainstream UI and not backed by monied elites but still has multiple fascinating journo friendly stories about it.