Does Veronica's ridiculous placement on Engadget have anything to do w/ actually being the girlfriend of Ryan Block. We get it Ryan, you love your girl, but try to cover someone else at CES.
I like tomboys... With girly girls, sometimes it just seems like they're not completely genuine. You feel like there's a real person deep on the inside, but it's all covered in girliness and makeup. Its when they fall in love with you that you see what they really are, and that's when the trouble starts.
I don't mind all the Veronica posts.. But seriously, does every summary have to introduce her as "Mahalo Daily's Veronica Belmont?" Its the same audience reading every post, we know who she is already and its just gotten beyond annoying.
guys, as the other Token Female at Engadget may i present you with the astounding true fact that Veronica Belmont already had a successful tech career long before meeting Mr. Ryan Block? I suppose you could have looked it up but then, making assumptions based on gender is so much easier, isn't it?
I'm sorry barb. My maleness must be getting in the way of me understanding your statement. Did any of the posts before yours question her successful tech career? I think most of us have heard of her and none of us question her "abilities." Well, you were the only one to question it.
Look at the facts: she has a successful tech career, she is an engadget editor's boyfriend, and i cannot remember at any time in engadget history where there was such fascination (by the editors or the readers) with one teach reporter. So, it is a reasonable conclusion that she is getting all this exposure at engadget because she is someone's boyfriend. Before you get all feminist on me, I bet Veronica and her man are probably at CES together in the same hotel room. Can just anyone with a successful tech career sleep in the same room as an engadget editor?
You are worse than those heterosexual males who are hootin and hollarin over Veronica. Putting words in men's mouths so that you can make a self-serving statement. Seems like you are the only one operating under gender assumptions.
In other news, when did Giordi La Forge get boobs? Its his eyes that needed the work.
Yes Veronica is extremely cute and has a background in this thing, but I cannot say that I like her reporting of CES.
First off, she has to lose the giant microphone - its completely unnecessary and constantly gets in the way of her demonstrating gadgets, which is what this is supposed to be about - get a wireless lavalier and take out a small hand mic only when someone else needs to talk.
She is also covering stuff very superficially like a local news reporter would, not a gadget blogger. And yes the constant bylining is completely unnecessary and annoying. Finally, the casual attire is ok for the audience but please at least take off your backpack.
By covering stuff superficially, a perfect example is this post - the whole reason she is there is to get the story, not reiterate the press release. She needed to actually *put these glasses on* in the video and *tell us what she thought of them* - not just pick them up and give us pricing, specs, and availability - thats phoning it in.
@larcen007: the only people who could read your statement and conclude there are no gender assumptions in it are the people who've never had to deal with any of these issues. in the same breath you claim "it's natural to conclude a female reporter got there because she's the girlfriend, not because she knows tech" and imagine that there are no gender assumptions in that... really?
if we had brought on an "outside" male reporter to do all of our CES video this year, no one would have questioned it. no one.
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Does Veronica's ridiculous placement on Engadget have anything to do w/ actually being the girlfriend of Ryan Block. We get it Ryan, you love your girl, but try to cover someone else at CES.
I like tomboys... With girly girls, sometimes it just seems like they're not completely genuine. You feel like there's a real person deep on the inside, but it's all covered in girliness and makeup. Its when they fall in love with you that you see what they really are, and that's when the trouble starts.
I don't mind all the Veronica posts.. But seriously, does every summary have to introduce her as "Mahalo Daily's Veronica Belmont?" Its the same audience reading every post, we know who she is already and its just gotten beyond annoying.
@Ethan - It's called advertising. :)
guys, as the other Token Female at Engadget may i present you with the astounding true fact that Veronica Belmont already had a successful tech career long before meeting Mr. Ryan Block? I suppose you could have looked it up but then, making assumptions based on gender is so much easier, isn't it?
I'm sorry barb. My maleness must be getting in the way of me understanding your statement. Did any of the posts before yours question her successful tech career? I think most of us have heard of her and none of us question her "abilities." Well, you were the only one to question it.
Look at the facts: she has a successful tech career, she is an engadget editor's boyfriend, and i cannot remember at any time in engadget history where there was such fascination (by the editors or the readers) with one teach reporter. So, it is a reasonable conclusion that she is getting all this exposure at engadget because she is someone's boyfriend. Before you get all feminist on me, I bet Veronica and her man are probably at CES together in the same hotel room. Can just anyone with a successful tech career sleep in the same room as an engadget editor?
You are worse than those heterosexual males who are hootin and hollarin over Veronica. Putting words in men's mouths so that you can make a self-serving statement. Seems like you are the only one operating under gender assumptions.
In other news, when did Giordi La Forge get boobs? Its his eyes that needed the work.
Yes Veronica is extremely cute and has a background in this thing, but I cannot say that I like her reporting of CES.
First off, she has to lose the giant microphone - its completely unnecessary and constantly gets in the way of her demonstrating gadgets, which is what this is supposed to be about - get a wireless lavalier and take out a small hand mic only when someone else needs to talk.
She is also covering stuff very superficially like a local news reporter would, not a gadget blogger. And yes the constant bylining is completely unnecessary and annoying. Finally, the casual attire is ok for the audience but please at least take off your backpack.
By covering stuff superficially, a perfect example is this post - the whole reason she is there is to get the story, not reiterate the press release. She needed to actually *put these glasses on* in the video and *tell us what she thought of them* - not just pick them up and give us pricing, specs, and availability - thats phoning it in.
@larcen007: the only people who could read your statement and conclude there are no gender assumptions in it are the people who've never had to deal with any of these issues. in the same breath you claim "it's natural to conclude a female reporter got there because she's the girlfriend, not because she knows tech" and imagine that there are no gender assumptions in that... really?
if we had brought on an "outside" male reporter to do all of our CES video this year, no one would have questioned it. no one.