Without seeing my face, you can’t tell I’m depressed. But aren’t you depressed, too? Just about everybody seems to be lamenting the sacrifice of quality to quantity in today’s media landscape:
Jim VandeHei, the outgoing CEO and co-founder of Politico, says the battleground for clicks means news organizations are ignoring the needs of smart readers and are falling into “the crap trap” of producing journalism simply designed to get the largest readership possible. “Everyone brags about 100 million unique visitors. So what? What does that mean?”
Peak content, it’s called: generating stories simply to get as much traffic as possible.
Read the post by Joy St James at medium.com
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