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Comment by seibelj | Hacker News Reader

Bloomberg is founded by a billionaire with a vested interest in... whatever he has an interest in? Washington Post by Bezos as well. Should we ban all of this so-called “independent” media from HN?

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If the Washington Post featured nothing other than articles about Amazon, and those articles only ever painted Amazon in an unreasonably positive light, then I would question the value of having those featured repeatedly on HN too.

Guess it depends what you want out of HN. Those publications all have issues with objectivity. For me it's enough to know the source, and see comments spelling out the source when it's non-obvious.

Well, Bloomberg probably has some actual cash. The crypto guy has a bunch of tokens he needs to turn into usable money. So he has a interest in keeping the price up while he slowly exits without crashing the price.

Honest question - does it bother you every day that any cryptocurrency is valued above $0? Does this violate you intellectually?

This doesnt sound like a "honest question" to me.

This seems like a good place to quote the latest HN guideline: "Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

That's implied by the other guidelines already, and is certainly the spirit of the site, but some redundancy seems needed for clarity.

Bloomberg also has a lot of pricing and other financial market data that he needs to turn into usable money. Most (but not all) of Bloomberg’s editorial content furthers that interest in one way or another.

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