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> this is a contributor/opinion article, not forbes directly. That's a super lame excuse by Forbes. Is it under Forbes domain? Is it approved by Forbes editori
by tasubotadas 7y ago
> this is a contributor/opinion article, not forbes directly.
That's a super lame excuse by Forbes. Is it under Forbes domain? Is it approved by Forbes editorial staff? Yes and yes, thus it's a Forbes piece.
Why I am emphasizing this? Because I am really annoyed by offloading certain opinions and shaking off the responsibility of the quality of the content published unto "independent" contributions.
Lots of publishers have taken this route recently such as Guardian, Forbes, Bloomberg (this one upsets me the most) and others in favour of getting some cheap pageviews.
Well, if that's the route they are taking, at least they deserve to be named as crappy content publishers.
- vorpalhex 7y agoForbes is doing in many ways what newspapers like the NY times are doing. When NY times posts an opinion article, it may well be something they entirely disagree with - and that's OK. That doesn't mean there are no standards (can't go against the guidelines for acceptable content ala hate speech) but if it's clearly marked as an opinion, it's just that. Opinion pages are by no means new.
- tasubotadas 7y agoThat's fine. But that content should be counted as theirs. You cannot have it both ways - pretend that you are quality publisher and then publish crappy content.
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