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That doesn't seem like a bad goal. It incentivizes stories that are important to their target market, and provides an easy way to measure that.
by admax88q 8y ago
That doesn't seem like a bad goal. It incentivizes stories that are important to their target market, and provides an easy way to measure that.
- piva00 8y agoOr you can apply Goodhart's Law[0] and try to picture how wrong that can also go. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
- sosborn 8y ago> That doesn't seem like a bad goal. Like most sales goals, it seems reasonable. And then you remember that when it comes to pay, some people will do anything.
- atoav 8y agoThe thing is – if you have such an incentive and you are faced with the choice between reporting a boring truth or a spiced up lie, you will go for the later. And that has nothing to do with journalism anymore. It _could_ work – if the editors are espeically on the hunt for bogus stories.
- occamrazor 8y agoThis was the opening story on their homepage. There us no way the editors (and the legal department) did not scrutinize it thoroughly.
- tertius 8y agoJust because it passes legal muster doesn't mean it's ethical. And I think that's one of the things that people are calling for.