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AlienRobot ◴[] No.41910836[source]
Am I the only who finds it odd how Wired is treated as a person?

The article begins with

>The Wired article by David Gilbert

Acknowledging that there is a real person called David Gilbert who wrote the article and it wasn't just an amalgamation known as "Wired" who did. Yet later it says:

>Wired just a month earlier encouraged its readers to adopt encrypted messaging apps, making its current stance even more contradictory.

But that article was written by Lauren Goode and Michael Calore.

If Wired had a stance in this, it would be exercising editorial control, which some would criticize for censoring the authors. Instead, Wired publishes whatever its authors write, and then some criticize for writing contradictory articles.

If I was Wired I'd just shrug because you can't win.

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1. red-iron-pine ◴[] No.41915432[source]
> Am I the only who finds it odd how Wired is treated as a person?

Wired is a brand, and they have editors. Nothing gets published without editors.

Those editors can choose what to push, or not. There will be a policy about what they push, and why. That policy is what decides if it's Drudge Report, or Avanti!, Fox News or Mother Jones, etc.