There is no bigger tell that someone doesn't understand how the business model of subscription-driven media works than when they talk about journalists at major publications "chasing clicks" in 2020.
I think we're speaking past each other a bit—the fact that traffic figures no longer directly affect compensation (or do so to a lesser extent) is very different than arguing that journalists and pundits no longer chase clicks, or have social and career incentives to do so
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I would heavily downplay the social and career incentives. The clicks are usually a result of the pursuit of acclaim and status, not the other way round
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... maybe wrong, but I perceive the important phenomenon to be the whole-publication pursuit of a fragmented and polarized audience. An author may not chase clicks, but has to please editors, who need to deliver a product based on customer demand in a brutal market
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