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10k journalists and your most popular articles are going to be about the Kardashians, what celebrities wore to an awards show and what celebrity couple is split
by TheCondor 8y ago
10k journalists and your most popular articles are going to be about the Kardashians, what celebrities wore to an awards show and what celebrity couple is splitting up. Maybe Lebron pokes in to the top 10.
Journalism is like science, an entire career might have a few interesting publications if you’re lucky, something really big is like winning the lottery. Current society isn’t designed to appreciate that kind of hit ratio. There is all sorts of low grade grift and corruption in business and politics but there aren’t enough big scandals to keep the kardashians out of our papers.
- jillesvangurp 8y agoThat's the case right now; except I don't read any of that. To get my money, journalists would have to up their game. And mind you, I pay 0$ right now. So changing that changes the incentives. If people still mostly want the stuff they are being fed right now AND are happy paying for that, well ... who are we to complain.