The piece describes an incident where a reporter asked YouTube some questions via email and the reply included an on-background section that the reporter chose to publish in full anyway.

Immediately after telling this dick-move story, the author laments, "Silicon Valley wasn't always so hostile to reporters."

The piece's criticisms against tech have a point, but the author has a real blind spot when it comes to looking in the mirror and considering ways that the media isn't entirely blameless for the frayed relations either.