The Macalope: It's dumb work if you can get it
All too often, delving into an egregious act of silly punditry is like peeling an onion of dumb. So many stupid, stinky layers.
First layer in today’s exercise: Writing for Forbes, Erika Morphy says: “Hackers Attack Activists Through Their Androids. Is Apple Next?” (Tip o’ the antlers to the Jony Ive parody account on Twitter.)
First rule of punditry: Anything that happens must be made to be about Apple. And if it’s something bad, so much the better.
This piece is not exactly Morphy’s own brainchild. In fact, it takes so many cues from a piece by Mike Murphy in the Mercury News that Morphy and her editor (if Forbes even uses editors) didn’t notice Murphy’s misspelling of “Kaspersky” and just perpetuated it.
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