Originally Posted by
halls120
If you're a true journalist, you don't write puff pieces. It isn't complicated at all.
With all due respect, TPG is not the work of one "true journalist" but a team of professional writers assigned articles by an editor-in-chief. Had you looked at the links I provided, you would have noticed that, for example, the puff piece was written by a different person than the critical review that followed it.
I understand that everyone wants review sites to be as objective and dispassionate as Consumer Reports; the problem is everyone also expects online content to be free. Those two aims are rarely compatible. The solution is to provide clear indication when something is a review, a piece of reporting, an interview, etc.
What rankles most is that TPG is going out of their way to provide critical -- at times even hypercritical -- reviews, but some readers refuse to accept it.