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Cocainenomics
- maxmcd 11y agoThis is an advertorial! Fascinating. > WSJ. Custom Studios is a unit of The Wall Street Journal Advertising Department. The Wall Street Journal news organization was not involved in the creation of this content. Very confused as to why this is getting voted up the front page of HN though.
- dang 11y agoWe invited prawn to repost it because it seemed like a high-quality story that missed getting attention the first time (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10268924 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10268924). Did we get that wrong? Certainly we sometimes do, as it's not physically possible to read all the articles. We don't care what department created it, only whether it's good content by HN standards, i.e. does it gratify intellectual curiosity.
- thieving_magpie 11y agoPaid for by Netflix to promote the show 'Narcos'. Strange. As for why it's voted up, doesn't seem all that odd to me. I'm looking at the front page and seeing a story about an aircraft carrier in ww2 and a story about coral in an aquarium making a man sick.
- dang 11y agoThe front page is supposed to have a diversity of stories.
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- thieving_magpie 11y agoThat's what I'm saying.
- dang 11y agoAh, I might have misread you. Agreed!
- prawn 11y agoI submitted it as an example of the sort of advertising we'll start to see more and more of online. Will people block the ad when the ad is the content, etc.
- subpixel 11y agoThe thought-bubble above my head went like this: 1. "Cocaine economics! This could be interesting." 2. "Man that Snowfall piece is still making waves in online journalism." 3. "Note to self: check out that cool Escobar show. When did that come out?" 4. "Damn, this is a big ad for the show, wrapped up in journalism, sort of. Written by marketers, not journalists. Ugh." 5. "I now have a strong negative connotation with that Escobar show. Probably won't watch it." (edit: show, not movie)
- aidos 11y agoIt's a show on Netflix, and this may not change your mind, but it's actually great TV.
- Phlarp 11y agoI recently finished watching this show, and can confirm it was excellent, but I felt exactly the same way as I read through this. I guess this is just how journalism is going to work for now.
- prawn 11y agoYes, this piece is used as an example of one future path for advertising online.
- thehoff 11y agoI agree but the show is all kinds of awesome-sauce.
- aresant 11y agoIn USA the story is the ad! Welcome to the future after we've all installed Ad Blockers.
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- josephpmay 11y agoIt really bothered me that the page had a ridiculous amount of unnecessary javascript that made the page slow to load and froze up my browser. I want to read the story, not look at fancy animations and autoplay video.
- steve-howard 11y agoI've had this complaint since everybody started copying Snow Fall, but people really seem to like it. Even when the browser runs quickly, I just don't want stuff to move so much.