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"Journalism" doesn't tend to reward this. It is a tautological statement than faster is better, all else being equal, for any type of work. In this case, the a
by IfOnlyYouKnew 5y ago
"Journalism" doesn't tend to reward this. It is a tautological statement than faster is better, all else being equal, for any type of work.
In this case, the article is by a guest author. They are not a journalist and this isn't, technically, "journalism".
"Journalism" also isn't monolithic enough to warrant the accusation that the trade itself is lowering its standards across-the-board. There are plenty of examples of deeply researched stories or elaborately crafted features on anything from pop culture to science to politics. While some publications may have succumbed to the easy fix that is viral content, and many local papers are but a shade of their former glory because nobody cares, the are plenty of publishers who escaped the other way, to quality.
Your complaint about selective quoting also really isn't really about anything being rushed. I presume you could lock the author in a dungeon for a few hours and they might be willing to say whatever you want, but not because they suddenly agree with it.
If you disagree with the author and work in AI, I would suggest that it isn't entirely impossible that the topic of cognitive biases is relevant here in more than one way.
- throwaway894345 5y ago> “Journalism" also isn't monolithic enough to warrant the accusation that the trade itself is lowering its standards across-the-board. It certainly feels that way to me. There are still holdouts of really good journalism, like Reuters, but even the likes of the New York Times seems to have significantly degraded. Good journalism seems to be the exception rather than the rule.
- stronglikedan 5y ago> While some publications may have succumbed to the easy fix that is viral content, and many local papers are but a shade of their former glory because nobody cares, the are plenty of publishers who escaped the other way, to quality. Since the former has become the norm, and the latter the exception, the former has become, technically, "journalism". Just another case where a word's meaning has changed due to ubiquity.