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Don't you wake up in the morning, feeling dead inside, and look in the mirror, wondering whether you ever were attractive in any way, whether you ever had somet

Don't you wake up in the morning, feeling dead inside, and look in the mirror, wondering whether you ever were attractive in any way, whether you ever had something unique and interesting to contribute to society, whether you really are valued by your boss, whether your SO is attracted to you or to your bank account, whether the point of life is at all related to what you've done with your life so far? This article isn't for you. It's for people who answer my questions with "I have always been ugly, I have nothing of value to offer society, I don't understand why I'm still employed, she left two years ago and took my heart, and maybe nothing I've ever done in life is good."

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mudil 9y ago
You forgot the big guns: Google and Facebook, who literally exploit small publishers and individual content creators. They are killing journalism and content creation, and all for the ever escalating profit. (I run a med tech website that reports on medical technologies for doctors and med professionals. I am an MD. We are publishing every day since 2004. News, interviews and exclusive reports. We have a half a million page views a month from professional readership, and Google pays us pennies for Adsense. $60/day? WTF!)
- Kalium 9y ago
  Once upon a time, an executive said “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.” It turns out that once you can measure very closely, it's often much more than half.
  - mudil 9y ago
    In the space of a decade the share of the UK advertising market going to UK regional and national newspapers has declined from nearly a half to little more than 10 per cent. Money which had been spent on journalists holding those in power to account, particularly at a local level, has been transferred to two US-owned digital platforms which exist purely to exploit content rather than create it.
    - battlebot 9y ago
      Big yup! Journalism as a profession is dying/dead and with it, we have lost a major check against oppression. My city get vanishingly little news coverage and so residents are not well informed unless they attend city council meetings, which nobody does. It's a city run by real estate people, mostly.
    - Kalium 9y ago
      Yup. When you can measure how useful marketing spend is, it gets redirected in more optimal ways for the goals of those with the marketing budgets. It's of course completely possible that I'm totally wrong in every way, but I'm under the impression that the primary goals of those with marketing budgets do not generally include supporting journalists holding those in power to account.
lacampbell 9y ago
I have no idea what this comment is supposed to mean. The contentless crap posted isn't for people who are mildly depressed, it's for people who are morbidly depressed?
dang 9y ago
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14214782 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14214782 and marked it off-topic.

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mudil 9y ago

You forgot the big guns: Google and Facebook, who literally exploit small publishers and individual content creators. They are killing journalism and content creation, and all for the ever escalating profit. (I run a med tech website that reports on medical technologies for doctors and med professionals. I am an MD. We are publishing every day since 2004. News, interviews and exclusive reports. We have a half a million page views a month from professional readership, and Google pays us pennies for Adsense. $60/day? WTF!)

Kalium 9y ago
Once upon a time, an executive said “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.” It turns out that once you can measure very closely, it's often much more than half.
- mudil 9y ago
  In the space of a decade the share of the UK advertising market going to UK regional and national newspapers has declined from nearly a half to little more than 10 per cent. Money which had been spent on journalists holding those in power to account, particularly at a local level, has been transferred to two US-owned digital platforms which exist purely to exploit content rather than create it.
  - battlebot 9y ago
    Big yup! Journalism as a profession is dying/dead and with it, we have lost a major check against oppression. My city get vanishingly little news coverage and so residents are not well informed unless they attend city council meetings, which nobody does. It's a city run by real estate people, mostly.
  - Kalium 9y ago
    Yup. When you can measure how useful marketing spend is, it gets redirected in more optimal ways for the goals of those with the marketing budgets. It's of course completely possible that I'm totally wrong in every way, but I'm under the impression that the primary goals of those with marketing budgets do not generally include supporting journalists holding those in power to account.

lacampbell 9y ago

I have no idea what this comment is supposed to mean. The contentless crap posted isn't for people who are mildly depressed, it's for people who are morbidly depressed?

dang 9y ago

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14214782 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14214782 and marked it off-topic.