“The assault on reason isn’t just a political phenomenon. Microsoft has long been developing its own cast of apologists who have eked out full time careers in the field of sputtering out ignorant, unfounded claims with such insistence and volume that the undecided simply have no alternative but to line up and applaud their seemingly convincing rhetoric. Among them is George Ou, who unsurprisingly blogs for CNET’s ZDNet branded website,” Daniel Eran writes for RoughlyDrafted.
“Take Microsoft’s need for constant, high pitched spin to detract from its grave mistakes and regular failures and combine it with ZDNet’s unapologetically desperate brand of sensational headline writing, and you have fertile ground for arrogant morons ready and willing to say anything and everything. High up on the moron pile is George Ou, a blogger billed as a ‘Technical Director of ZDNet,'” Eran writes.
Eran writes, “It’s not just technical issues that Ou fails to grasp. After readers questioned his use of the word ‘couple’ to refer to a half dozen, Ou answered, ‘Learn English: A few would mean 1-3. A couple would mean 4-9.'”
Eran writes, “Ou’s reputation as a shoddy writer of fact-refuting, intellectually embarrassing misinformation earns both him and ZDNet the dishonor of a Zoon award nomination for spectacularly bad work in promoting the regression of human achievement.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “RadDoc” for the heads up.]
George Ou has one rare, remarkable, and routinely-employed talent: he can make Rob Enderle look like a tech genius.