2) Of course journalism has always been market-conscious. That’s why we have had: best-seller lists, and Tabloid Wars in the olden days, and “if it bleeds it leads,” and The Front Page, and Nielsen Ratings, and so on, etc. It’s a business and you need an audience.
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3) You can't *make* people watch or read what you put out. So you have to balance what they already know they’re interested in, with what you think they "should” be aware of. This is diff between “news” and “entertainment" (Goal for news: “Make the important interesting.”)
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4) But hyper-granular awareness of what stories are drawing attention, right NOW, has overall been destructive That's because the accumulation of items that are most compelling second-by-second generally does not add up, at end of the year, to what you most wish you'd portrayed
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5) In principle you can resist this. Back when there were newsmags, they knew exactly which topics sold, and didn't. (Hint: of 52 newsmag issues per year, the worst-selling half dozen were invariably those about international affairs.) Still they put out some global stories.
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6) But if you *can* know *exactly* what is getting traffic in real time, it's hard to act as if you don't. I personally have the luxury of *never* having to look at ChartBeat, but I were running an online web site, I'd have it on my screen, like everyone else.
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7) We all have so much else to worry about, that people have (sensibly) decided to defer worrying about this. But to return to
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I agree, although I think it's even more profound than social media. We are, in a sense, no longer writers but word processors. I tried to deal with it in its very early stages here:https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-marche-numbers-20150419-story.html …
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TV News was at the forefront of this, they didn't seem to get around to a reckoning. Why would print? Some thinkpieces, sure, but the underlying financial cushion is worse.
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