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salvorhardin

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2. I hear you

Reply to brewens (Reply #1)

Thu Jul 19, 2012, 10:15 AM

Jul 2012

I think it's an underlying disease in our culture -- the pursuit of "more" -- more pageviews, more traffic, more widgets, more bodies, more money. The irony, of course, is that "more" is not the same as "better" but it's often synonymous with "worse." In the media, this is highly visible. We constantly chasing more eyeballs, but those eyeballs don't pay, and as a result there's fewer people to produce quality journalism.

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Our Gullible Media: How the singular pursuit of traffic makes online media suckers for fake news [View all] salvorhardin Jul 2012 OP

We get this same effect with recruiters at our blood center. Their director demands that brewens Jul 2012 #1

I hear you salvorhardin Jul 2012 #2

Afternoon kick salvorhardin Jul 2012 #3

media not gullible but complicit. HiPointDem Jul 2012 #4