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It has always been known that certain content would work better to sell ads than other. Travel, cooking, or home decoration, for example, are definitely better
by matt4077 8y ago
It has always been known that certain content would work better to sell ads than other. Travel, cooking, or home decoration, for example, are definitely better than political news.
And yet, the NYT has withstood the pressure to become the ground level equivalent of an in-flight magazine.
Can we maybe credit them for that, instead of just assuming that everybody agrees that they will succumb to economic pressure without feeling the need to even make the case for it?
- adw 8y agoThe news industry has been aware of this forever; one of the fundamental problems with news being ad-supported is that advertisers don't want their ads next to bad news. This predates the Internet; it's why glossy Sunday sections exist.
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- sidibe 8y agoSome advertisers prefer the negative news. AM radio has lots of ads for guns and emergency supplies.
- smadge 8y agoThe important point is that the information that gets to the public should be in the public interest, not business interests.
- shaggyfrog 8y agoSome glossy weekend sections are now entirely “sponsored content”, aka ads: https://twitter.com/canadaland/status/1116848132539678722 https://twitter.com/canadaland/status/1116848132539678722