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Bloomberg chief editor: We publish too many mediocre and long enterprise stories

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Re: Bloomberg chief editor: We publish too many mediocre and long enterprise stories

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Articles in The Economist are usually a better investment of my time. I was originally introduced to the magazine by a teacher in high school, but I've come to learn that many other people weren't as fortunate. https://www.economist.com/

I find that Economist articles about things I don't know much about are great. But the more I know about the topic, the less I think of the article. It isn't just the spin; sometimes you can guess whom they were talking to and whom they weren't by how wrong and they way they get something wrong.

>But the more I know about the topic, the less I think of the article.

Gell-Mann Amnesia, as Michael Crichton put it:

"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know."

Re: Bloomberg chief editor: We publish too many mediocre and long enterprise stories

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Oh, are they finally apologizing (or providing proof for) their story The Big Hack about chips the size of a grain of rice China puts in computers made by Dell and Apple and others? No? Not a word about it? It’s almost like they’re continuing to pretend that their giant journalistic screwup doesn’t exist. Don’t care. ‘Are articles are too long’. How about yours articles are untrustworthy?

Bloomber overcorrected after firing Josh Topolsky and pivoted into clickbait.

https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/07/bloomberg-fires...

Re: Bloomberg chief editor: We publish too many mediocre and long enterprise stories

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post #13

Oh, are they finally apologizing (or providing proof for) their story The Big Hack about chips the size of a grain of rice China puts in computers made by Dell and Apple and others? No? Not a word about it? It’s almost like they’re continuing to pretend that their giant journalistic screwup doesn’t exist. Don’t care. ‘Are articles are too long’. How about yours articles are untrustworthy?

They are simply a politicized arm of the fear-mongering, democratic, Lucifarian/illuminati one world gov pushing bankers.

Re: Bloomberg chief editor: We publish too many mediocre and long enterprise stories

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Articles in The Economist are usually a better investment of my time. I was originally introduced to the magazine by a teacher in high school, but I've come to learn that many other people weren't as fortunate. https://www.economist.com/

The economist has several things going for it. For one, being a weekly newspaper they only write about things that are worth knowing about a week later. Second, they’d rather have a longer piece with analysis, generalization, and tying Disparate things together than a simple “this is what happened” They are also owned by a foundation so are less subject to the vicissitudes of the markets. The Economist has its limita…

I was a subscriber back in 2008-10 and then again from 2016-17. I found it odd that somewhere in the middle, they seemingly stopped (or slowed down) doing the special reports that were a deep dive on a big topic. Those were always my favorite parts of new editions.

Re: Bloomberg chief editor: We publish too many mediocre and long enterprise stories

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Articles in The Economist are usually a better investment of my time. I was originally introduced to the magazine by a teacher in high school, but I've come to learn that many other people weren't as fortunate. https://www.economist.com/

I find that Economist articles about things I don't know much about are great. But the more I know about the topic, the less I think of the article. It isn't just the spin; sometimes you can guess whom they were talking to and whom they weren't by how wrong and they way they get something wrong.

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Re: Bloomberg chief editor: We publish too many mediocre and long enterprise stories

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The point of the chief editor is so true that I'm surprised to read that from them.

I have noticed that a lot of times with this kind of web media.

- You have a clickbait title like this: "How a normal guy managed to hack WallStreet with a simple pen"

- Then, you have one page of interesting introduction on the topic but without the reply to the title question.

"In november 2018, WallStreet was busy with the introduction of xxxx, and suddenly a problem happened, everything went black. To understand, wallstreet works with computers that are connected with a modern system... 300 words ... and on that cold night of the 23 nov 2020, one man John Crowford destroyed all of that."

- Then you have 10 pages of useless crap and fake intervews about the childhood of the guy and a lot of things that are not interesting, and not related to the subject.

"His mother was blond, she liked to eat fries. But despite that, John Crowford liked to eat popcorn. So much that his friend reported that, one time, he stayed at a movie theater for a whole day just to eat popcorns ... Studies at the yyy school were ok, but he followed them without passion until he met Carolinas Brocolis a hot night of summer 1992. Together they got 3 kids ... he was not supposed to live in New York as he was born in California, but he found a job there, ..."

- And then, you finally have the explanation that is, most of the time, short and straightforward.

"So, he was hired as a Janitor in Wall Street, and accidentally put his pen inside the holes of a power plug, resulting in a major power failure. THE END"

After reading such a story, either you did skip to the end directly, or you are very angry to have lost so much time reading useless things.

Re: Bloomberg chief editor: We publish too many mediocre and long enterprise stories

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Oh, are they finally apologizing (or providing proof for) their story The Big Hack about chips the size of a grain of rice China puts in computers made by Dell and Apple and others? No? Not a word about it? It’s almost like they’re continuing to pretend that their giant journalistic screwup doesn’t exist. Don’t care. ‘Are articles are too long’. How about yours articles are untrustworthy?

I agree, publishing a story with such a strong claim and then having nothing to come out of it... That's insane. It seems like they had no evidence of anything and just went by hearsay despite having very high ranking people in the involved companies denying their claims completely and categorically.

It's unfathomable to me that they would dare publish something like that without having an ironclad case and even more damning that they never even bothered to retract it.

Re: Bloomberg chief editor: We publish too many mediocre and long enterprise stories

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Articles in The Economist are usually a better investment of my time. I was originally introduced to the magazine by a teacher in high school, but I've come to learn that many other people weren't as fortunate. https://www.economist.com/

My tip for reading The Economist (I have a paper subscription) is to always start with the obituary. Their obituaries are wonderful.

I do the same. I've often thought they should publish a book consisting solely of obituaries. As morbid as this sounds, it would be almost like a history of the last 100 years viewed through a very different lens.

Re: Bloomberg chief editor: We publish too many mediocre and long enterprise stories

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Articles in The Economist are usually a better investment of my time. I was originally introduced to the magazine by a teacher in high school, but I've come to learn that many other people weren't as fortunate. https://www.economist.com/

Ironically, John Micklethwait, came from The Economist. Was there from 1987, and Editor-in-Chief in 2006.

The modern Bloomberg was an attempt to become The Economist.

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