I like the caption: "Liberty Writers News founders Paris Wade, left, and Ben Goldman work at their apartment in Long Beach, Calif., on Nov. 14, 2016. Stuart Palley For The Washington Post"
It flows like a single sentence.
These two youngs are making $40k+ a month with fake political news
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#32I'm surprised so many people are shocked about this. Has nobody seen what ESPN has become because it's the exact same thing: opinion pieces with no real content because that's what gets more views as it adheres to the lowest common denominator and is much cheaper to produce. It's also analogous to reality TV taking over television.
ESPN is not the exact same thing. Yes, ESPN has taken a turn to lighter, fluffier content that is simpler to produce. They are not in the business of creating an entire media business dedicated to misleading people.
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#33These people are honestly scum, representing the apotheosis of cynicism in politics and media. If Facebook had any shred of credibility left they'd shut them down now after this article.
> These people are honestly scum, representing the apotheosis of cynicism in politics and media. That applies to the main stream media too. They too stoke fear and hysteria and undoubtedly are far more powerful and influential. Here is a good summary : http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/10/26/john-stossel-rulin... In India we have a media company whose singular objective is to expose fraudulent news on main stream m…
Funny to see an article complaining about the state of the mainstream media... posted to FOX News. One in a long line of media orgs writing stories about "the media" as if they aren't an integral part of it. Pot, meet kettle.
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#34I'm surprised so many people are shocked about this. Has nobody seen what ESPN has become because it's the exact same thing: opinion pieces with no real content because that's what gets more views as it adheres to the lowest common denominator and is much cheaper to produce. It's also analogous to reality TV taking over television.
ESPN is not the exact same thing. Yes, ESPN has taken a turn to lighter, fluffier content that is simpler to produce. They are not in the business of creating an entire media business dedicated to misleading people.
I'll admit that was an over exaggeration and ESPN is not nearly as bad.
However, would you not agree that most media has been regressing towards the lowest common denominator with the least amount of effort put into it?
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
> These people are honestly scum, representing the apotheosis of cynicism in politics and media. That applies to the main stream media too. They too stoke fear and hysteria and undoubtedly are far more powerful and influential. Here is a good summary : http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/10/26/john-stossel-rulin... In India we have a media company whose singular objective is to expose fraudulent news on main stream m…
Funny to see an article complaining about the state of the mainstream media... posted to FOX News. One in a long line of media orgs writing stories about "the media" as if they aren't an integral part of it. Pot, meet kettle.
I am unable to see the logic here. Fox news continues to support diversity of opinion lot more than CNN or ABC. The author in question was a consumer reporter with ABC who was fired once he started changing his own opinions based on evidence.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
ESPN is not the exact same thing. Yes, ESPN has taken a turn to lighter, fluffier content that is simpler to produce. They are not in the business of creating an entire media business dedicated to misleading people.
I'll admit that was an over exaggeration and ESPN is not nearly as bad. However, would you not agree that most media has been regressing towards the lowest common denominator with the least amount of effort put into it?
Absolutely. Because there's no money in doing anything else. ESPN is behind many, but is facing this reality more and more.
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#37"These two youngs"? "Youngs" is not a word. Please update the title. The title of the article is: "The stories, headlines and bylines are fake. But the money pouring in is very real".
ok, I got downvoted due to excessive snark I guess. However my point still stands, the HN title is not really within the guidelines (not to mention ungrammatical). "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.".
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly -- I don't understand why they agreed to be interviewed. People riding a profit wave usually don't announce to the world that they're frauds.
I think they are so disgusted with the system, they're trying to say "fuck it all" and grab some cash and hopefully hasten the crash and burn of the "modern media".
That was the impression I got as well - after all this has all the hallmarks of some Bennington grad's "social experiment" - but they went about it in the worst way possible. Rather than say satire or even their own reportage, they simply lied and raked in the dough.
Unfortunately the media isn't going anywhere. NYT, who got it so wrong when it mattered the most, added 41k net subs in the week following the election
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#39As someone who's seen a lot of journalists and honest news websites struggle to make money (one I frequent makes about $70 a month on Patreon at the most), seeing these scumbags making $40,000+ a month for rushed together articles about lies is just utterly depressing.
Makes you wonder what the point of actually doing researching or writing interesting stuff is nowadays. Why bother when actual work doesn't make money and flat out lying to people does?
But hey, I guess that's what the world wants now. Content that merely backs up their own beliefs, regardless of how true/accurate it actually is.
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#40"These two youngs"? "Youngs" is not a word. Please update the title. The title of the article is: "The stories, headlines and bylines are fake. But the money pouring in is very real".
ok, I got downvoted due to excessive snark I guess. However my point still stands, the HN title is not really within the guidelines (not to mention ungrammatical). "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.".
It deserved upvotes if anything, so I gave it one, and this one, as I think you're quite right.
Leaving aside "youngs", (the submitter probably has English as a second language, but it looks silly and should have been corrected), "These [certain group] are making [big money figure] doing [unusual thing]" is itself textbook clickbait style.