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It’s really just a simple supply and demand curve. A certain number of people have a demand for particular publications at a price of $0, and a significantly sm
by AmericanChopper 7y ago
It’s really just a simple supply and demand curve. A certain number of people have a demand for particular publications at a price of $0, and a significantly smaller groups of people have a demand for those publications at any price greater than $0.
> The public needs to be educated enough to differentiate good journalism from bad journalism, so that they reward the good journalism and not reward the bad.
This just sounds mightily smug to me. People like things that you don’t think they should like, but if only they were as educated as you are, they would share your correct tastes and world view?
- lotsofpulp 7y agoBad journalism is reporting false data, unverified data, misleading statistics, etc. It’s not about tastes. For example, in subjects requiring data analysis, I don’t see why the thoughts of someone who doesn’t understand math and statistics would be as valid as someone who does.
- AmericanChopper 7y agoThere’s all sorts of bad journalism. Tabloid and click bait journalism are incredibly popular. When it comes to what’s misleading, false or unverified, that’s a topic open to endless debate. There’s nothing about your tastes or opinions that are universally correct, and to say that if only people were educated properly that they’d have the same tastes and opinions as you is most certainly arrogant and smug.