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Tech journalism in 2012 : - Find some quotes (preferably rants) from random sources, vaguely related to your subject - Add vague historical references - Choo
by tangue 14y ago
Tech journalism in 2012 :
- Find some quotes (preferably rants) from random sources, vaguely related to your subject
- Add vague historical references
- Choose a provocative title
- Post on aggregators
- Collect comments and go back to step 1
- 7952 14y agoIt is worrying how many comments a bad article can attract merely telling people how bad the article is. Presumably comment count is used as a measure of quality, even if the comments are negative?
- tangue 14y agoThis article is emblematic of what I would call "dark patterns of online journalism". It's not the first time (search "Apple's poisonous Touch silently kills the GNOMEs of Linux Forest" for the latest example ), and it's not just a bad article. There is no added value in this article, it's a deliberate attempt to manipulate people's gut feelings, with a cost effective strategy in order to increase pageviews, and it needs to be denounced.