The worst slides in Mary Meeker’s trends report

The worst slides in Mary Meeker’s trends report

ByJosh Bernoff

Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends Report for Kleiner Perkins is a comprehensive and provocative collection of data about technology change. It’s also the most cluttered, visually jumbled 213-slide pileup in the history of PowerPoint. Reading this deck is like walking through a construction site in which the Hell’s Angels are putting on three simultaneous Cirque de Soleil…

The fluff in the WSJ article about the Pao sex-discrimination suit

The fluff in the WSJ article about the Pao sex-discrimination suit

ByJosh Bernoff

Today I’ll dismantle the Wall Street Journal’s coverage of the Ellen Pao-Kleiner sex-discrimination suit. I don’t analyze facts, I analyze writing. You may think the lawsuit is bullshit or the verdict is bullshit, but that’s not my concern. What I will show you is that this article, like much of the news in mainstream publications, is padded…