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0 pointsavivo9y ago0 comments

What if you had only an hour or so to research, write, and publish in order to meet your daily quota?

"If they were writing five posts a day, one former employee recalled, Blodget [CEO of Business Insider] urged them to write six." http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/29/media/business-insider-staff...

These sorts of incentives (and the resulting "reporting" quality) are the natural result of the web we have created.

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I agree with your sentiment. My feeling is however that the existing incentives are the problem, and they result in low quality journalism.

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0 pointsavivo9y ago0 comments

What if you had only an hour or so to research, write, and publish in order to meet your daily quota?

"If they were writing five posts a day, one former employee recalled, Blodget [CEO of Business Insider] urged them to write six." http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/29/media/business-insider-staff...

These sorts of incentives (and the resulting "reporting" quality) are the natural result of the web we have created.

I agree with your sentiment. My feeling is however that the existing incentives are the problem, and they result in low quality journalism.

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