ZDNet

ZDNet is a technology tabloid-like news sites whose writers have many conflicts of interest; the difference between advertising and stories is rarely clear. CBS, the parent company, also runs CNET, which is a little more professional.

Here are some posts about ZDNet as analysed by Techrights over the years.

2015

 * People of New Zealand Must Rise Up to Defend Sovereignty and Stop Software Patents

2014

 * The Scam Which is ZDNet/CBS: Not Reporting the Real Crimes
 * Anti-GNU/Linux Agenda at ZDNet (Part of CBS) Noted Again

2013

 * CBS is Censoring Its Writers’ Articles, Not Just Polite Comments It Disagrees With
 * Microsoft Bloggers Run ZDNet
 * Mike Masnick Mistakenly Calls ZDNet ‘Tech Press’, Not Realising It’s Agenda-filled Blogs Pretending to be Journalism/News
 * Has Microsoft Irreversibly Taken Over ZDNet (CBS) to Disseminate Its Lies?
 * More Microsoft Employees as ZDNet ‘Writers’, Microsoft Bribes Bloggers for AstroTurfing
 * Dubious Editorial Control in ZDNet

2012

 * Microsoft Jack Back From Retirement to Save Vista 8

2011

 * ZDNet UK: Is the Affair With Microsoft Over?
 * ZDNet Spins the Spreading of Free Software as a Loss to Free Software
 * The World According to ZDNet: Vista 7 a Whole Area of IT
 * ZDNet Censors Comments Editors Disagree With
 * Articles of ZDNet UK
 * Is ZDNet Collapsing?

2010

 * ZDNet and IDG ‘Open Source’ Blogs Use Oracle for FUD
 * ZDNet’s ‘Open Source and Linux’ Blog Consults With Pro-Microsoft Campaigner
 * ZDNet’s “Open Source” Blog Still Hostile Towards Freedom (the “F” in FOSS)

2009

 * New Lengthy Rebuttals to ZDNet’s Anti-Free Software Rhetorics
 * ZDNet Embeds Placements for Anti-Free Software Companies

2008

 * ZDNet: “Microsoft Has Turned Into the Biggest Patent Troll in the World”
 * Editiorial Control and ‘Missing’ Writers

2007

 * ZDNet Speculation About Patent Battles with Microsoft