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We have alarming news. The owner of The Sacramento Bee is trying to tie journalists’ pay to the number of clicks their stories get.
@SacBeeGuild ^
| Oct 19 2020
| Sacramento Bee News Guild
Posted on 10/19/2020 11:03:22 AM PDT by rintintin
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To: rintintin
So add more fiction and feel good stuff to get leftists to click.
To: rintintin
Hillary Clinton is pronounced clinically dead for 10 minutes.
clickity click.
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posted on
10/19/2020 11:28:07 AM PDT
by
Leep
(We can go to the grocery store but we can't go to work?)
To: rintintin
By focusing on computer clicks, he’s trying to get them ready to “learn to code”.
To: G Larry
This is going to kill their “diversity” and “equity” stories.
The “diverse” communities they’re writing about don’t read the newspaper, either in print or online.
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posted on
10/19/2020 11:29:17 AM PDT
by
rintintin
(The)
To: G Larry
This would be a great time for them to go after the Hunter Biden corruption story!
They would rather be standing on street corners begging for food than covering the Biden scandal.
Hopefully their readers will make it so!
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posted on
10/19/2020 11:29:47 AM PDT
by
cgbg
(Biden n-2020: Criminal enterprise using cokehead as bagman.)
To: G Larry
This would be a great time for them to go after the Hunter Biden corruption story!
They would rather be standing on street corners begging for food than covering the Biden scandal.
Hopefully their readers will make it so!
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posted on
10/19/2020 11:29:48 AM PDT
by
cgbg
(Biden n-2020: Criminal enterprise using cokehead as bagman.)
To: rintintin
Whew! Not the Babylon Bee.
Somewhat similar in news coverage.
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posted on
10/19/2020 11:31:10 AM PDT
by
Mark
(Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
To: rintintin
The old mantra was, “if it bleeds, it leads”.
And I can’t remember the exact formula, but it used to be something along the lines of 1 local death equals 100 in New York, 1000 in Europe, and 100,000 in Africa for news value.
Time to get back to basics. The current media formula of Yesterday’s news Tomorrow certainly isn’t working.
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posted on
10/19/2020 11:36:47 AM PDT
by
PAR35
To: rintintin
Yep. I sure am alarmed that MSM reports feel threatened. Yep. 4 State alarm here.......
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posted on
10/19/2020 11:36:50 AM PDT
by
Seruzawa
(TANSTAAFL!)
To: rintintin
Actually this could work. Newspapers used to hire editorialists known as “sob sisters”, who only kept their jobs by writing editorials so obnoxious that the paper would get hate mail. It was assumed that people that upset would continue to buy the paper to continue to be upset.
No hate mail and they were immediately fired. Some of them went to the length of sending themselves hate mail.
But most objective news is rather boring, so it should be under different rules. That is why these people were called “reporter”, and opinion people were called “journalists”.
American needs tens of thousands of good reporters. Media needs to get rid of so many opinion writers masking as reporters if America can ever truly have a decent, free press again.
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posted on
10/19/2020 11:43:02 AM PDT
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
("All men and women were created by the, you know, you know, the thing." -- Joe Biden 3/3/20)
To: rintintin
They could pay them based on how many birdcages are lined with their articles, too..
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posted on
10/19/2020 11:43:53 AM PDT
by
CarmichaelPatriot
(Recovering Kalifornian... Loving Alabama!)
To: rintintin
It’s ok,they can learn to code.
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posted on
10/19/2020 11:50:44 AM PDT
by
shanover
(...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
To: rintintin
I bet the staff starts writing a lot of stories about sex, drugs and rock and roll, and not in the particular order
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posted on
10/19/2020 11:58:51 AM PDT
by
The Louiswu
(Carry and be prepared to use.)
To: rintintin
Frankly, I don’t give a Damn!
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posted on
10/19/2020 12:14:19 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(The line that separated Satire, Democrats and Stupidity has vanished. (thanks to jonascord)!)
To: rintintin
Performance incentives; what’s wrong with that?
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posted on
10/19/2020 1:40:25 PM PDT
by
Renkluaf
To: rintintin
it's called productivity... produce or be gone
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posted on
10/19/2020 1:41:37 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
To: rintintin
The story can be great, but it’s the headline that draws the clicks. Bad or uninteresting or uninspiring headline = fewer clicks.
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posted on
10/19/2020 10:05:10 PM PDT
by
JimRed
(TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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