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by avivo 3453 days ago
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.

1 comments

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