[brk]

The thing this article does not cover is that the average journalist has no sway. Most readers don't want the opinion of some random person covering a space, so "CEO Said a Thing" is the headline that draws the reader in. Many times the journalist also is not getting paid enough to inject any sort of counterpoint or unique perspective. This just seems like the natural outcome of the click-whoring online "news" structure we've created.

[hamdingers]

If a journalist is not being paid enough to do journalism, what do we call their output?

Certainly not journalism.

[saaaaaam]

The fairly well established term is churnalism.

[righthand]

Spam

[MeetingsBrowser]

clickbait

[catcowcostume]

Then a better approach would be to not report on CEO's ramblings, and instead focus journalistic resources on topics of more interest to society. But, as the article points, that is not the purpose of journalism (at least in the United States).