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Medium, and The Reason You Can’t Stand the News Anymore
Curated:
17/01/2017 from
medium.com/@SeanBlanda/medium-and-the-reason-you-cant-stand-the-news-anymore-c98068fec3f8
my notes ( ? )
today’s news outlets are all in a no-win situation where they are forced to contribute to the causes of their own demise to survive... well-meaning people try to “fix” the news. But instead, those methods erode trust in all news outlets... You can draw a straight line from the bad incentive structure forced upon news outlets to the unprecedented divisiveness in our country.... each way of making money creates an unending pressure for scale and reach at all costs. ...
a piece of news content that spreads has a better business value to the news outlet than one that is journalistically sound... the news outlet has to build up as many followers ... results in editorial practices that don’t prioritize nuance, accuracy, or originality... whatever plays on social is king...
the reader ... often unable to separate what’s an opinion, what’s an ad, what’s fake, what’s a “quick hit”, what’s a deeply reported story, or what’s sponsored...
Soon we stop trusting outlets that don’t talk to us the way we’d like... we often associate a news outlet with its worst moment and a group with its worst members...We get sliced and sliced into smaller and smaller groups, each with its own group of pundits, publications, and Facebook memes.
a piece of news content that spreads has a better business value to the news outlet than one that is journalistically sound... the news outlet has to build up as many followers ... results in editorial practices that don’t prioritize nuance, accuracy, or originality... whatever plays on social is king...
the reader ... often unable to separate what’s an opinion, what’s an ad, what’s fake, what’s a “quick hit”, what’s a deeply reported story, or what’s sponsored...
Soon we stop trusting outlets that don’t talk to us the way we’d like... we often associate a news outlet with its worst moment and a group with its worst members...We get sliced and sliced into smaller and smaller groups, each with its own group of pundits, publications, and Facebook memes.
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