Friday, January 14, 2011

Please, please read me

A Daily Beast tweet today: "19 Signs Loughner Was About to Blow!" Or how to hype a tragic story for maximum page visits. The adjective vacuous best describes the article pointed to. There's no way to stop web-ploitation like this. Ranting about it won't help either. Still, I shudder to think what's inside the heads of editors who unblinkingly allow good journalism to unravel before their eyes, and ours.

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