● 10.04.14
●● The Capture Continues: Yet Another Microsoft Marketer Gets Hired by CBS for ZDNet ‘Reporting’
Posted in Deception, Microsoft at 3:46 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Unembarrassed about its sheer bias, the CBS network continues to offer propaganda and placements for a fee (even after Gamergate) and it hires people from the corrupt company (Microsoft) they will soon cover
CBS has just hired YET ANOTHER guy from Microsoft. It is becoming some kind of a sick joke. What is ZDNet becoming? Microsoft News? Shadow journalism for Microsoft? Is this another Gamergate in the making?
“After CBS took over some networks it also laid off prominent FOSS journalists whom we named here before.”The CBS-owned ZDNet (stuffed with Microsoft staff and CBS ‘News’ (also hiring from Microsoft) both recently added staff from Microsoft to attack Microsoft’s rivals and praise Microsoft. Technology news would soon be distorted and reality be rewritten. Here comes another new writer and guess where from? In his own words:
Howard spent 14 years in the tech industry working as a programmer, evangelist, and community manager for Microsoft.
Now he does AstroTurfing (oops, we mean "evangelism") for Microsoft. It is all about deceiving and openwashing Microsoft. Here is a new ugly article which tries to openwash Microsoft in a very deceptive way:
Microsoft Malaysia developer experience and evangelism director Dinesh Nair said Microsoft was committed to advancing the company’s investment in interoperability, open standards and open source.
Really? Standards? FOSS? Well, a lie might stick is thrown around often enough. This is an example from the corporate media in Malaysia.
For anyone who still believes that CBS is a news company, watch this page from the CBS-owned CNET. It does not even hide its business model: “CNET helps marketers develop messaging strategies and advertising programs that resonate with their target customers. Whether launching a product, generating awareness, or driving sales, we have the programs to fit your advertising needs.”
Shun CBS and moreover complain about its lying; the network spends far too much time attacking FOSS and glorifying Microsoft, Bill Gates etc. It is very simple to see why. After CBS took over some networks it also laid off prominent FOSS journalists whom we named here before. Remember who paid CBS over the years; it wasn’t FOSS players. █
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