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The Media listen to their customers no matter what. When they found that they got more eyeballs and revenue by talking about a certain former president, they co
by abirch 4y ago
The Media listen to their customers no matter what. When they found that they got more eyeballs and revenue by talking about a certain former president, they covered him more.
If you say Twitter and Elon you're going to get more clicks than if you were to say YCombinator and Paul Graham even though the later two are vastly more important and educational for me.
- seydor 4y agoare people really interested in elon's buyout? would be interesting to see if those stories are really popular. but journalists are on twitter all day, so naturally they write about it more https://www.nytimes.com/trending/ https://www.nytimes.com/trending/
- abirch 4y agoI don't have the metrics. Maybe the journalists are on twitter all day, usually they have metrics that they have to hit.