Actual framing:
Cruise wasn’t hiding the pedestrian-dragging video from regulators — it just had bad internet / An independent review of an incident in which a driverless Cruise vehicle dragged a pedestrian over 20 feet concludes the company has connectivity issues.
My expectations for journalists are low but goddamn
I don’t think it’s fair to call the verge journalism. It has many of the trappings of journalism, but writing shit on a public website a journalist does not make. Especially when that site looks like it’s gonna give my computer fucking herpes. Dogshit website should be banned.
The Verge is a lot like Ars Technica. There are some stellar, top notch journalists at both outlets doing important work, and there’s a firehose of press release regurgitation and bootlicking from the other side of the house, and if you don’t pay attention to individual journalists’ bylines you have absolutely no indicator whatsoever which is which. Like Buzzfeed was, back in the good days of Buzzfeed News, except Buzzfeed at its lowest was just TMZ crossed with Quizilla.