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But without the hyperbole, people won't get engaged, they won't get angry. Now, to some extent that engagement is being sought in order to sell Rolling Stone,
by pja 14y ago
But without the hyperbole, people won't get engaged, they won't get angry.
Now, to some extent that engagement is being sought in order to sell Rolling Stone, but I think that both Matt and the Rolling Stone editors believe that they're talking about something that matters & that people should be angry about. Hence the hyperbole.
If they wrote a dry academic paper and published it in some economics journal somewhere it might contain exactly the same information but it would have negligible impact.
- davidw 14y ago> But without the hyperbole, people won't get engaged, they won't get angry. As above, "getting people angry" about stuff that is very tangentially related to hacker news is a good indication it's a bad fit for this site. There are so many other sites on the internet to discuss politics, economics and things of that ilk. In the grand scheme of things, those topics are more important than "hacker news" and could easily "crowd out" our "dry" discussions of computers and startups here.
- tedunangst 14y agoIf they wanted to get people angry, they should follow the money and show where all the money used to build a new hospital goes, but Taibbi's axe doesn't grind that way.