We recently talked to a well informed political activist who predicted that not only is fascism and martial law coming to the
If a writer is the first to mention a prediction that comes true, does that count as a scoop?
What if a columnist peppered his work with obscure cultural references that meant that (hypothetically) half of the Google searches that landed new readers on the site were a result of his idiosyncratic "Google bait"? What's not to like about luring fresh eyes into the tent?
According to an urban legend in the photojournalism community, LIFE magazine offered to pay $100 per roll for undeveloped film shot in
Young photographers have the attitude: "We can run over to the scene of the action and shoot a few pictures and make some money!" Older photographers tend to employ the philosophy that "we can walk around
Scoops, predictions, commentary, feature photos, and news pictures all fall under the classification of content. Have "hed counts" become as extinct as the American Buffalo?
The citizen-journalist fad means that some content providers will function as a one-person news organizations and thus have the chance to fulfill the early Intenets hopes for the development of unique voices.
The obsession with finding items that will go viral tends to indicate that the trend is toward a digital popularity contest and the likelihood of a thought provoking column from a unique voice, getting a massive amount of hits is considerably diminished. "Go viral or die!"
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