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When i use Google news , there's so much waste in web journalism: a million journalists rewriting the same article, and often a useless and low quality article,
by petra 9y ago
When i use Google news , there's so much waste in web journalism: a million journalists rewriting the same article, and often a useless and low quality article, at that.
So maybe there's a better way.
- briandear 9y agoI agree. It’s really old fashioned supply and demand. When the price drops below the price of providing something, you get a shortage. We need a shortage of some of the nonsense that passes for “news” these days! In the heyday of the wires, Reuters, AP and to a lesser extent UPI and AFP were the syndicated news sources of choice – now every “digital marketing” intern from here to Jakarta suddenly is their own “wire” service. I am all for diverse reporting, but the same story written 800 different ways at a quality approaching trained monkeys on typewriters – I’m kind of over it.
- gaius 9y agoSo maybe there's a better way. There's a reason those articles are so bad https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/06/robo_journalism_google/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/06/robo_journalism_goo...
- petra 9y agoThis isn't the reason(although it could add to it). This is for local news, not the stuff we are talking about.