[AtlasBarfed]

You might be right, but at least it is SOME skeptical source to fight back against the unending gusher of marketing bullshit.

The fact they may preferentially apply the snark based on "extortion" isn't great, but at least they are SOME voice, and like comedy some snarky sarcasm is often much more incisive that (shockingly) fluff.

And considering the gushing amound of shadow-sponsored fluff in other magazines, aka the flip side of your alleged "extortion". If anything, the non-snark is an honest signal to an informed reader.

[alephnerd]

> is SOME skeptical source to fight back against the unending gusher of marketing bullshit.

They aren't though. They are also marketing bs. If you work at a vendor, go slack your content marketing team for a coffee chat to understand how it works.

This is the managing company for The Register [0]. We'd work with AMs at Situation Publishing to be looped to the right magazine (Register, Next Platform, Blocks and Files, etc) and could complain to them if we gave enough business to them.

[0] - https://situationpublishing.com/

[hylaride]

You're complaining about the news/publishing industry in general, though.

As I mentioned earlier, the register isn't on my radar anymore and obviously sold out. In your original post, you had a hate-on with their tone, but it was their tone that (originally) made them refreshing. The discourse without it would be have reporting on corporate release announcements and various reviews by people who don't use the products day-to-day in their actual job.

Snarky tones about Larry Ellison needing yacht money or referencing whether a good or useful IBM product was worth having to deal with their aggressive sales people was the indications that the writers (again at one time) got or understood the industry.

Of course, that's not sustainable as a business model...

Anyways, my main point is that it's not the tone that's the issue, it's the publication industry for reasons that you stated.