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It is also the view of many working journalists, or at least the ones I know. And it's not like some CEO decided "hey, let's pivot to churning out low-quality
by jonas21 3y ago
It is also the view of many working journalists, or at least the ones I know.
And it's not like some CEO decided "hey, let's pivot to churning out low-quality clickbait because I really like that stuff." They were forced to by the shift of ad budgets from print to more targeted advertising and the consolidation of news readership into a small number of well-known publications. Though I do agree that it's equally unfair to blame journalists for this.
- coldpie 3y ago> They were forced to by the shift of ad budgets from print to more targeted advertising Indeed. As with almost everything else terrible about the world today, the root of the problem is targeted-advertising-based business models.
- pixelrevision 3y agoIt really has caused a race to the bottom anywhere it becomes the primary business model. Everyone hates it but no one’s got a solve to get people paying for things once they are “free”.
- foldr 3y agoWe'll see how successful the autogenerated clickbait farms end up being. But nothing you're saying is really making a case for the company needing a visionary human intelligence for its CEO. If the entire business model of the company is strictly determined by external conditions, then the whole thing seems ripe for automation.
- topaz0 3y ago> forced Only if you consider it to be inevitable that their primary goal is to make themselves and their owners preposterously rich.