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Not going to upvote the media glorification of clickbait enterprises. They are a waste of people's time and energy. They exist only for their own selves.
by webwanderings 12y ago
Not going to upvote the media glorification of clickbait enterprises. They are a waste of people's time and energy. They exist only for their own selves.
- jaredmck 12y agoThe media certainly is not glorifying this enterprise. I read the New Yorker article as a massive, massive indictment of Spartz's business model.
- relaytheurgency 12y agoPart of me thinks it was my own disgust in the model that made the New Yorker article feel it was a negative take on the clickbait industry. That was an ironic feeling, given the context. The portions of the story where it discusses his family life, and the glorification of this person's intelligence... they felt borderline satirical but probably only because I want it to be pointed satire. The 22 year-old former Syracuse student, for instance, quoting Uncle Ben rather than a more auspicious figure (Jesus, Roosevelt) with the same basic quote... It just felt like the Twilight Zone. I hope that this parasitic method of generating ad revenue with meaningless content languishes rather than flourishes.
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- freshhawk 12y agoI think this is the best piece of journalism on clickbait enterprises I've seen yet. It was anything but glorification.
- josu 12y agoI see it as the TVfication of the internet. The average Joe doesn't consume political debates on the situation of Western Sahara when he watches TV, why would he want to visit hacker news or TED.com when he comes online?