A Thought for the New Year: Be Techy
December 16, 2025
George Orwell wrote in 1984: “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” The Guardian published an article that embodies this quote entitled: “How Big Tech Is Creating Its Own Friendly Media Bubble To ‘Win The Narrative Battle Online’.”
Big Tech billionaire CEOs aren’t cast in the best light these days. In order to counteract the negative attitudes towards their leaders, Big Tech companies are giving their CEOs Walt Disney makeovers. If you didn’t know, Disney wasn’t the congenial uncle figure his company likes to portray him as. Walt was actually an OCD micromanager with a short temper and tendencies reminiscent of bipolar disorder. Big Tech CEOs are portraying themselves as nice guys in cozy interviews via news outlets they own or are copacetic.
Big Tech leaders are doing this because the public doesn’t trust them:
“The rise of tech’s new media is also part of a larger shift in how public figures are presenting themselves and the level of access they are willing to give journalists. The tech industry has a long history of being sensitive around media and closely guarded about their operations, a tendency that has intensified following scandals…”
The content they’re delivering isn’t that great though:
“The content that the tech industry is creating is frequently a reflection of how its elites see themselves and the world they want to build – one with less government regulation and fewer probing questions on how their companies are run. Even the most banal questions can also be a glimpse into the heads of people who exist primarily in guarded board rooms and gated compounds.”
The responses are typical of entitled, out-of-touch idiots. They’re smart in their corner of the world but can’t relate to the working individual. Happy New Year!
Whitney Grace, December 16, 2025
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