He's not wrong, but Jesus it's depressing to read 12 years later: > the readers are leaving, and they're not coming back. Why? I think the main reason is that

He's not wrong, but Jesus it's depressing to read 12 years later: > the readers are leaving, and they're not coming back. Why? I think the main reason is that the writing online is more honest. Ahahaha oh God. > Whatever its flaws, the writing you find online is authentic. It's not mystery meat cooked up out of scraps of pitch letters and press releases, and pressed into molds of zippy journalese. It's people writing what they think. "The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made."