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Good luck finding high quality content on YouTube or Reddit, because roughly 99.9% of it is garbage. It would take a full-time staff the size of the New York Ti

by scholia 11y ago

Good luck finding high quality content on YouTube or Reddit, because roughly 99.9% of it is garbage. It would take a full-time staff the size of the New York Times, and with a similar level of research and linguistic expertise, to winnow the crap and convert it into something a normal person might care about. Hacker News or Stack Exchange are better quality but the useful information content is still quite low, and it's the sort of stuff that appeals mainly to a small and rather expert audience. Indeed, that applies to Wired as well. Do you really think combing Reddit for info is a substitute for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal etc?

CM30 11y ago
Depends what kind of info you're looking for. Are you looking for information on the current middle east geopolitical situation? Then not really. Same deal if you're looking for some sort of longform investigative journalism like the recent one about one of the Truecrypt founders. But if you're a web developer or programmer looking for information about the latest Javascript frameworks or what not, then yes. You're going to find better information in blogs and on social sites that on a mainstream news site or publication, because the former cares about the specific subject and the latter has to try and cover a wide range of things to less of a degree. And in gaming... well, the 'professional' journalism is terrible quality to begin with. The only sites that cover anything remotely interesting are fan or volunteer run, and the most interesting sources for gaming related media are indeed social media sites. You're not gonna find anything as in depth at this on most sites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A Even for more normal 'news' stuff, there are usually tons of free and fan run alternatives. For example, no one tries to get news about Pokemon from a mainstream source, because they've got other things to focus on and don't know a lot about gaming in general. Instead, they go to one of the many fan run sites, like Bulbanews or Serebii.net. This holds true for most gaming related niches, where there'll be a few sites that provide it directly (hours ahead of the mainstream media) then a flood of copycats a bit later. But it all depends. It's not a substitute for 'professional' media for certain, rather more serious subjects no. But for tech, gaming, entertainment or other such subjects, the free news sites are perfect for anyone's needs.
- scholia 11y ago
  > Depends what kind of info you're looking for. Of course. However, the simple-minded truism that you can find obscure technical information in obscure places doesn't make YouTube or Stack Exchange a replacement for the New York Times, which is actually kind of the like the main point, you know? ;-) > And in gaming... well, the 'professional' journalism is terrible quality to begin with. The only sites that cover anything remotely interesting are fan or volunteer run, and the most interesting sources for gaming related media are indeed social media sites So Edge was never interesting and Stuart Dredge is wasting his time on the Guardian....

by scholia 11y ago

CM30 11y ago

Depends what kind of info you're looking for. Are you looking for information on the current middle east geopolitical situation? Then not really. Same deal if you're looking for some sort of longform investigative journalism like the recent one about one of the Truecrypt founders. But if you're a web developer or programmer looking for information about the latest Javascript frameworks or what not, then yes. You're going to find better information in blogs and on social sites that on a mainstream news site or publication, because the former cares about the specific subject and the latter has to try and cover a wide range of things to less of a degree. And in gaming... well, the 'professional' journalism is terrible quality to begin with. The only sites that cover anything remotely interesting are fan or volunteer run, and the most interesting sources for gaming related media are indeed social media sites. You're not gonna find anything as in depth at this on most sites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A Even for more normal 'news' stuff, there are usually tons of free and fan run alternatives. For example, no one tries to get news about Pokemon from a mainstream source, because they've got other things to focus on and don't know a lot about gaming in general. Instead, they go to one of the many fan run sites, like Bulbanews or Serebii.net. This holds true for most gaming related niches, where there'll be a few sites that provide it directly (hours ahead of the mainstream media) then a flood of copycats a bit later. But it all depends. It's not a substitute for 'professional' media for certain, rather more serious subjects no. But for tech, gaming, entertainment or other such subjects, the free news sites are perfect for anyone's needs.

scholia 11y ago
> Depends what kind of info you're looking for. Of course. However, the simple-minded truism that you can find obscure technical information in obscure places doesn't make YouTube or Stack Exchange a replacement for the New York Times, which is actually kind of the like the main point, you know? ;-) > And in gaming... well, the 'professional' journalism is terrible quality to begin with. The only sites that cover anything remotely interesting are fan or volunteer run, and the most interesting sources for gaming related media are indeed social media sites So Edge was never interesting and Stuart Dredge is wasting his time on the Guardian....