Apple’s revolving door with its press plants
 

For a while now, we have been moaning about the Tame Apple Press and how the fruity cargo cult controls the media through its tame hacks and hackettes. This week a revolving door was discovered between the press and Apple after it was revealed that a reporter had been working for both Apple and as regular journalist.

Nilay Patel, the red-faced editor-in-chief of The Verge had to explain to the world why his magazine allowed Chris Ziegler to file copy for the magazine while he was actually working for Apple.

Patel admitted that the issue raised ethical issues of transparency and respect for the magazine’s audience. However, he was confident that there was no material impact on its journalism from these issues, but they are still serious enough to merit disclosure. We guess he means they would write nice things about Apple anyway.

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