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Who’s (partly) to blame for Theranos’ fallout? Silicon Valley tech reporters

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A lot of fingers have been pointed during Theranos’ fall from grace, with most of them directed at the company and its beleaguered front woman Elizabeth Holmes. But now, a new report is placing some of the blame on new shoulders: the Silicon Valley press.

Tech reporters idolized Holmes without asking tough questions, according to a new article in Vanity Fair. A tech blogger had his blood drawn onstage as he interviewed Holmes at an event, the story points out. And Holmes featured front and center in stories in T: The New York Times Style Magazine and the New Yorker, but reporters rarely pushed back at the company’s test development.

It wasn’t until Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou saw a passage in the New Yorker‘s profile of Holmes that journalists started digging deeper. Ken Auletta, the reporter who wrote the piece, said that Theranos was “treated as a state secret” and that Holmes’ description of its testing was “comically vague.”

 

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Josh Sandberg

Josh Sandberg is the President and CEO of Ortho Spine Partners and sits on several company and industry related Boards. He also is the Creator and Editor of OrthoSpineNews.

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