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A fie on on Forbes for slapping a click-baiting headline on another publication's professional reporting and hard work. It's one thing to tweet about it, but t
by subpixel 15y ago
A fie on on Forbes for slapping a click-baiting headline on another publication's professional reporting and hard work.
It's one thing to tweet about it, but to reprint numerous chunks of the original article? Wrapped in your own ads? How is this journalistically sound?
- gregholmberg 15y agoIt makes me hold my nose too, but I think in twenty years this "rewrapping" method will be a staple in J-school textbooks.
- unreal37 15y agoIn 20 years? That's what the Internet is today. 90% of stories are based on an interesting article the author read, and rewrote as a blog entry.
- jaredmck 15y agoThere won't be J-school in twenty years if this continues.
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- _delirium 15y agoIt made it into The Onion, which is close: http://www.theonion.com/articles/huffington-post-employee-sucked-into-aggregation-t,27244/ http://www.theonion.com/articles/huffington-post-employee-su...
- brown9-2 15y agoWhat Forbes did/does isn't journalism.
- nswanberg 15y agoForbes optimizes for pageviews like Target optimizes for sales. They even emphasized the most emotionally compelling part of the story. And comparing the HN votes and discussion for this post vs. the original New York Times version, they chose wisely. Perhaps Ian Ayres' book Super Crunchers would have been more widely read had it begun with the pregnancy angle.
- antoncohen 15y agoBut it works, not just the headline, but the condensed information. The Forbes article is 2 pages long in large font, the NYT article is 9 pages in a much smaller font. There's something to be said for providing useful info in a short form.
- mahmud 15y agoWho cares about default font size? Learn how to use your browser's text resizing keychords (usually C-+ and C--)
- rcthompson 15y agoMentioning the font size here is like declaring the units used to measure something (e.g. inches). It's not a complaint about the font size being wrong.
- dannysanchez 15y agoWhen folks link to a regurgitated version of an original piece of journalism, they are rewarding someone for doing a lazy copy/paste job rather than the person who took weeks (if not more) to produce original information. The Forbes article doesn't even add much insight to the discussion and takes such a substantial portion of the article that it removes a great deal of the incentive to click through.
- HeyLaughingBoy 15y agoPerhaps. But more people are likely to read the 2-page article than the 9-page one. And if the point is to communicate "business knows more about you than you think they do" then they've done the job.
- dannysanchez 15y agoWhen folks link to a regurgitated version of an original piece of journalism, they are rewarding someone for doing a lazy copy/paste job rather than the person who took weeks (if not more) to produce original information. The Forbes article doesn't even add much insight to the discussion and takes such a substantial portion of the article that it removes a great deal of the incentive to click through.