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Journalistic integrity gets continuously eroded with stories like this. Like your source is a high level director with a few hundred reports... nope, it is a me

Journalistic integrity gets continuously eroded with stories like this. Like your source is a high level director with a few hundred reports... nope, it is a meme post on an internal tool. Just feels lazy. A well-researched article on the benefits being cut, maybe some analysis on how much it could be saving the company or what the impact of 12,000 jobs might be worth would make this much more readable.

RajT88 3y ago
Yep. How much of prime time news now is, "Have you seen what is going on on Twitter??".
mensetmanusman 3y ago
The Internet killed the economics of journalism. This is the new baseline of quality, because they can’t afford talent.
- htag 3y ago
  Where is the journalistic talent? It seems exceedingly rare.
  - mensetmanusman 3y ago
    It’s gone, absorbed into other parts of the economy.
  - questime 3y ago
    Bloomberg and Reuters for financial stories that are relevant to the markets. They have a major financial incentive to not mess it up i.e. their customers will cancel their 10,20k/yr/person subscriptions.
  - disgruntledphd2 3y ago
    The financial papers are generally better than the rest.
- heresie-dabord 3y ago
  > This is the new baseline of quality, because they can’t afford talent. This is at best an incomplete statement. Advertising moved to a more lucrative technology and if good journalism comes to depend on subscription revenue, readers are not willing to pay in sufficient number. We are now at least two generations removed from the faint echo of grammar being taught by somewhat informed personnel. Neither the people writing nor the people reading are adequately equipped. ChatGPT now impresses people, for pity's sake. Talent is hard to find in all domains, for money or love.
joegahona 3y ago
Verge churns out an “article” every few hours that is just a bunch of Twitter embeds sandwiched between a few sentences of fluff. Sometimes they even retype what’s in the Tweets, to fill up space, or presumably if the embeds break. (Or maybe it’s some desperate SEO play). Truly atrocious content.
kevingadd 3y ago
Even if memegen is only used by 5% of the company (it's probably much more?) it's an important enough part of the company culture that some developers were allowed to maintain/expand it on company time. It was always very active during all-hands meetings and individual posts would get hundreds or thousands of interactions from what I saw. The question is basically 'are these memes representative of feelings within a larger subset of the company' and these sorts of takes don't really address that question at all. Memegen is not twitter.
Willish42 3y ago
These are literally the Google-internal-social-media version of "meaningless article about something happening on Twitter". I'm sure these articles are easy money though or we wouldn't keep seeing them.

RajT88 3y ago

Yep. How much of prime time news now is, "Have you seen what is going on on Twitter??".

mensetmanusman 3y ago

The Internet killed the economics of journalism. This is the new baseline of quality, because they can’t afford talent.

htag 3y ago
Where is the journalistic talent? It seems exceedingly rare.
- mensetmanusman 3y ago
  It’s gone, absorbed into other parts of the economy.
- questime 3y ago
  Bloomberg and Reuters for financial stories that are relevant to the markets. They have a major financial incentive to not mess it up i.e. their customers will cancel their 10,20k/yr/person subscriptions.
- disgruntledphd2 3y ago
  The financial papers are generally better than the rest.
heresie-dabord 3y ago
> This is the new baseline of quality, because they can’t afford talent. This is at best an incomplete statement. Advertising moved to a more lucrative technology and if good journalism comes to depend on subscription revenue, readers are not willing to pay in sufficient number. We are now at least two generations removed from the faint echo of grammar being taught by somewhat informed personnel. Neither the people writing nor the people reading are adequately equipped. ChatGPT now impresses people, for pity's sake. Talent is hard to find in all domains, for money or love.

joegahona 3y ago

Verge churns out an “article” every few hours that is just a bunch of Twitter embeds sandwiched between a few sentences of fluff. Sometimes they even retype what’s in the Tweets, to fill up space, or presumably if the embeds break. (Or maybe it’s some desperate SEO play). Truly atrocious content.

kevingadd 3y ago

Even if memegen is only used by 5% of the company (it's probably much more?) it's an important enough part of the company culture that some developers were allowed to maintain/expand it on company time. It was always very active during all-hands meetings and individual posts would get hundreds or thousands of interactions from what I saw. The question is basically 'are these memes representative of feelings within a larger subset of the company' and these sorts of takes don't really address that question at all. Memegen is not twitter.

Willish42 3y ago

These are literally the Google-internal-social-media version of "meaningless article about something happening on Twitter". I'm sure these articles are easy money though or we wouldn't keep seeing them.