Many (PR-beleaguered) tech journalists have developed an inherent distastefora profession that peppers them with inane pitches that are mostly irrelevant to their editorial interests.
They can view this as a silly internet contest (which they did last year), or a real representation of the distaste players havefor them, and work as hard as they can to change that perception.
They were torn between enthusiasm at the prospect of an enormous national champion and distastefor so public a spectacle (which should have been confined to ministerial salons).
Shares of the private-market alternative to education lender Sallie Mae have been having a dreadful year, which you might expect given the growing distastefor asset-backed securities, the floundering takeover deal for its government-sponsored competitor and a recently announced investigation by New York State into its lending practices.