Vox-Recode Partnership

  • > The future of technology is a political story. The future of politics is a technological story. If we’re going to understand the changing world around us, the old coverage silos no longer make sense. And so we’re breaking them down. Recode and Vox are joining forces.

    I'm not sure this is a good thing. I enjoy Vox as much as anyone, but I enjoy it with a grain of salt. As the fine folks at Epsilon Theory like to point out, Vox is an explainer of news. They make no attempt at being objective.

    I suppose Recode has never really pretended to be objective either, but their focus has been simply on "asking the hard questions" (as the saying goes) to tech leaders. This didn't strike me as a particularly political thing.

    Now every story from Recode is going to be a more or less unofficially left-wing/liberal story.

    (For the record, I'm a left-wing liberal, too. I just like my news to be as objective as possible. The "other side" often has a point, and I like to hear it when they do.)