Tom Foremski: iPhone 5 Coverage Encapsulates Everything That is Wrong with Tech Journalism

The name Tom Foremski may not be immediately familiar beyond Silicon Valley, but he holds a rather remarkable distinction. He was the first reporter from a major daily newspaper to defect to the ranks of full-time blogging in 2004 when he left the Financial Times.

Foremski decries what passes these days for legitimate tech journalism. Although Fortune magazine for example sent five reporters to Apple’s big iPhone 5 announcement in San Francisco, he notes that the much bigger story was unfolding next door at the Intel Developer Conference.

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