I guess I had presumed that he worked in news. It just seems to fall into a trend of decrying the decline of journalism (Dan Rather was no Walter Cronkite and David Gregory is no Dan Rather) without anyone actually saying what to do about it. I agree that listicles are atrocious. Buzzfeed is like pure glucose...little chunks of sugar high that immediate evaporate and leave you depressed. But...everyone knows that, right? I mean, journalism has gotten crappier (as a whole) as it has gotten diluted and gotten more corporate.
Perhaps the trend needs to be pointed out to people. I didn't think it did, but a lot of people don't pay as much attention to news as I do. I stopped watching news on TV a decade ago because it is awful. So I suppose that I just react negatively to articles that now say "news sucks" without offering up any solutions because the topic seems "well, duh" to me. Cheers, Judah On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Cameron Childress <camer...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I don't know about VOX you may be right, but I see the whole "someone > should fix this" comment as "someone in news should fix this". If someone > says someone should fix a broken app I assume they are saying a developer > should fix it. You can read something else into it and that's fine too. > > The whole listicle thing is a total pet peeve of mine and I hate seeing > that crap on FB. I am also very disappointed in the crappy newsless > entertainment network that CNN has turned into - another pet peeve. It has > been Nancy-Gracified. > > I think much of the CNN thing can really be traced back to the OJ chase and > addiction to the trial. Since then it's been one trial after another. Only > one thing in the world is ever happening on CNN, and if Nancy Grace has > anything to do with it - it usually involves a dead or missing white girl. > > I am glad to see that at least the missing Mylasian flight is finally no > longer "breaking news" on CNN.com after 2+ months. > > -Cameron > > On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > > > > I get his general gist and I like that he calls out Vice for the good > > things they are doing. I don't understand his criticism of Ezra Klein and > > Vox, though. I go to Vox (which I don't really read, though I should) > and I > > don't see anything like what he's saying: http://www.vox.com/ > > > > I see the top 5 articles are on solving poverty, overloading the VA, > gitmo > > predicament, challenges america faces responding to climate change, and a > > historical piece about D-Day. Seems pretty substantial to me. > > > > More so, I've got a problem with what Hudack writes because it is trite > and > > easy. He calls out others, decrying the decline of quality in journalism. > > Well, shit, people have been doing that for decades. Throwing stones is > > easy, so what are we going to do to make it better, Mr Hudack? See the > > last sentence in his post: "It's hard to tell who's to blame. But someone > > should fix this shit." Ah, gotcha. I'll get going on that, Mr Hudack. > > > > Judah > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:370770 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
