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> “15 awkward photos of world leaders that explain 2015” and a spoof video called “The Galactic Civil War” I'm not sure you can call this "journalism". Sure, y

> “15 awkward photos of world leaders that explain 2015” and a spoof video called “The Galactic Civil War” I'm not sure you can call this "journalism". Sure, you're giving the people on social media networks what they want: funny, linkbaity stuff they can share. The pageview metrics will support and encourage that. But what individual people want and what society needs is often misaligned, if not diametrically opposed. I think I'm just disappointed because quality journalism and investigation takes time and is a losing business proposition, so it often requires patrons with large pockets and an altruistic outlook. Bezos could have been that patron. But it seems like he's going in the opposite direction with the Washington Post for business/financial reasons. Not that I should have expected anything else...it is a private company and not a gov-funded org or a charity.

pp19dd 11y ago
Just for sake of some humor and perspective, compare the clickbaity stories you dislike to a police blotter story from print. One of my favorites from Baltimore is this one, in its entirety: "Someone entered the rear yard of a house in the 5900 block of Johnson St. on Saturday morning and removed a tomato from a tomato plant. The tomato was valued at $3, police said."
jahnu 11y ago
Playing the Devil's Advocate here a little, but Garfield isn't journalism either and we get that in newspapers.
- roymurdock 11y ago
  We get 3 pages of comics (my favorite part of the newspaper, especially bizarro, foxtrot, and marmaduke) and 30 pages of news. When you switch the ratios, you're not running a newspaper anymore, you're running an entertainmentpaper. Which is fine, as Rupert Murdoch has proven time and time again.
  - criley2 11y ago
    >and 30 pages of news That's unfair because those 30 pages of news also include Entertainment / Celebrity and Local and Sports sections full of the same low quality fluff we're complaining about. More like 10 pages of news and 20 pages of lighter / fluff content.

pp19dd 11y ago

Just for sake of some humor and perspective, compare the clickbaity stories you dislike to a police blotter story from print. One of my favorites from Baltimore is this one, in its entirety: "Someone entered the rear yard of a house in the 5900 block of Johnson St. on Saturday morning and removed a tomato from a tomato plant. The tomato was valued at $3, police said."

jahnu 11y ago

Playing the Devil's Advocate here a little, but Garfield isn't journalism either and we get that in newspapers.

roymurdock 11y ago
We get 3 pages of comics (my favorite part of the newspaper, especially bizarro, foxtrot, and marmaduke) and 30 pages of news. When you switch the ratios, you're not running a newspaper anymore, you're running an entertainmentpaper. Which is fine, as Rupert Murdoch has proven time and time again.
- criley2 11y ago
  >and 30 pages of news That's unfair because those 30 pages of news also include Entertainment / Celebrity and Local and Sports sections full of the same low quality fluff we're complaining about. More like 10 pages of news and 20 pages of lighter / fluff content.