I can smell what you've got cooking, Ms. Roy

I just read "Smell You Later, Nerds", a column by Jessica Roy at BetaBeat. It is her last column, as she is heading over to TIME to run their TimeNewsfeed.

She has a list of things she hates about the tech beat, and here are my two favorite:

7. The communal obsessions with expensive, over-brewed coffee, Nike Fuelbands and auto-tweeting scales, all of which are basically just narcissism masquerading as enlightened futurism.8. The notion that being the slightest bit critical makes you a “hater,” and the idea that providing any kind of coverage that isn’t a big sloppy BJ shows a lack of “journalistic integrity.”

The last one, of course, is pretty much a concern in every journalistic field. She's also concerned about the rampant and often ignored sexism and classism in the tech community. I think her final column deserves your attention.