Are you a fucking journalist? Or not? If so, then don’t put your fucking byline on an article that’s just a tweetstorm collection. That’s fucking ridiculous. You expect us to read this fucking crap?
If you’re just an intern or some guy in his mom’s basement trying to post some shit to Facebook, then feel proud of what you’ve done, which is cutting and pasting a twitter feed into one webpage. But if you’re a supposed professional, then you suck. And your editors suck. And your boss sucks, and your website sucks.
Because your giant tweetstorm forward collection of an article is really only 27 sentences of content. 27 sentences. Formatted in the worst possible way.
The linked article is just the most egregious instance of this fucking travesty I’ve seen lately. But 2016 is the year of the tweetstorm, and this shit has to stop. Format those 27 sentences into paragraphs, or fuck you.
Welcome to the era when “journalism” has passed the torch of integrity to an amorphous body known as “fact checkers.”
I know three newspaper journalist/editors, one a Pulitzer winner, who simply quit about six years ago because even old, formal newspapers had given up on the notion of journalism being an art.
No, too dismissive. Being free doesn’t excuse the writer and publisher from a couple of centuries of evolved good journalism practices. Not if they’re going to pretend it’s “news” and “reporting” and not “Joe Fuck’s Stupid Blog of Crap I Read Somewhere.”
I noticed this right before CompuServe and netscape died we had it in the mid 00s and slowly netscape went from ap and reuters to various sport blogs political blogs for the news
Now msn does the same thing but they do it readers digest style … like a lot of their sports comes from yardbarker ect …
Like a lot of their slide shows are redone lists from other sites… Its funny tho when someone bitches in the comments on how biased msn is when the original site it comes from is posted right on the side
Because I hope that the original author has some personal integrity. No one is tying him to a chair and forcing him to write internet news. He chose this job. Therefore, he should try to do a good job. I could write better articles than this, even without knowing anything at all about the subject!
I’d hope that an author would care enough to not have his name attached to crap that people can point and laugh at. But, I am continually finding out that people just don’t care anymore.