I want them to be more rigorous: to acknowledge that ideas are meaningless in a vacuum that does not include real world material conditions, and that people pursuing innovation are not the only people who matter, or even the people who matter most. And another structural reality is that organizations--companies, say, startups--are terrible at policing themselves. What journalism seeks to do is illuminate the areas where destructive means are being utilized to achieve ends that might actually be virtuous or worthy in some other way.
Update (2/16/2021):
I think this is such an excellent take on this specific article, how the tech community interacts with the media, and how the rationalist community especially mixes these issues up with their own ideology and issues.
I think this is such an excellent take on this specific article, how the tech community interacts with the media, and how the rationalist community especially mixes these issues up with their own ideology and issues.