Right. Slate started with economist Herb Stein (economist/actor Ben Stein's dad) as their advice columnist, then Margo Howard, then the level-headed Emily Yoffe (who did good work on the Sabrina Rubin Erdely hoax). But now ...
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Almost all magazines are on autopilot. It's hard to come up with counter examples.
@QuilletteM? Very few. Autopilot nonfiction and fiction across the board. But is there an audience for anything else? If so, they're silent .... or going somewhere else for their needs -
30-something with an elite liberal arts education speaking here, the sort of demographic who should be all over Atlantic, NPR, etc. I hang out on 4chan because it's both more intellectually stimulating AND more entertaining than any "respectable" magazine or website nowadays.
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I'd have to agree with you. And the chans don't censor words like social media and old time media do. When do you hear "illeg-l ali-n" used on NPR, or printed in the Atlantic? They're so grossly PC, it's not fun to read. Now we actually have to self-censor that word on Twitter!
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And it sucks because for the past 3 years I've kept trying to give places like The Atlantic, NPR, the NYT, etc a chance but they now all feel as sterile, safe, and fundamentally unsatisfying as reading all those free copies of USA today that they gave us in elementary school.
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They're dead. They don't matter at all. They probably have more readers of their twitter feeds than their articles. The future is elsewhere.
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And it's considerably more fun than the legacy media ever was. I'd say it's a win-win for people like us, though I can see why the folks running those establishments and their younger wannabes like BuzzFeed and Huffpo are all so terrified of what's coming.
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Eric Weinstein call this hermit crabs (journalists) crawling into the shells of organizations we think we know (CNN, NYT, NPR, The Atlantic, etc) and radically changing them.
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More like Sacculina.
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A paucity of effective business models and short audience attention spans have turned most news websites into clickbait headline generators.
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Conor Friedersdorf is well worth reading at the Atlantic
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