[whoknew1122]

Everything in context. This was written by a journalist who writes specifically about internet culture.[1] The job of a cultural writer or critic is to provide alternate ideas to help broaden and shape your view of the world.

This wasn't written by Woodward and Bernstein, or some hard-hitting give-me-the-facts-only political or business reporter. It's written by someone who specifically writes about culture. She writes the following:

> "Unless your story ties into some larger cultural trend, or holds some type of important wider significance, I am not interested in covering it. And frankly, it’s not newsworthy."

If the story being pitched doesn't tie into a larger cultural trend, it's not worth covering by a culture reporter.

Someone's success can be newsworthy, but it has to impact the larger culture to be relevant to a reporter who specifically writes about culture.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/by/taylor-lorenz

[JasonFruit]

Comments on the article from other journalists position it as, "and we all feel this way." Whether or not it was intended as a representation of journalistic attitudes in general, it has been upheld as one by other journalists.

[herewegoagain2]

Fair enough, but I would still maintain that even for "internet culture", don't let journalists shape your views of it.

[torgian]

I feel like I’m old, because I don’t really understand what internet culture even is. Are they talking about memes, hackathons and such?

[whoknew1122]

It's not hard to find out what she writes about:

https://www.nytimes.com/by/taylor-lorenz