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Back in the nineties, a journalism professor told our class about an experiment where a local American newspaper tried to publish some minimum percentage of "go
by Eric_WVGG 8y ago
Back in the nineties, a journalism professor told our class about an experiment where a local American newspaper tried to publish some minimum percentage of "good news," and their readership tanked.
I cannot find a reference to this story, but a Russian paper tried a similar thing about ten years ago with similar results.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8702807 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8702807