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Anyway. It's fine. Gossip sites are gonna do what they do. It's when what are supposed to be more "serious" news sites started to pick it up that I began to despair.
what happens when mainstream 'serious' sites get in on the action is that it extends the cycle, let alone the reach, of any given story. So something is suddenly EVERYWHERE, which means sites that didn't cover it may feel like they should after all because, well, it's everywhere.
It's really common to see major entertainment sites post some knock-off 2 paragraph aggregated story in order to grab a bit of traffic. And since Google weighs their importance higher in search results, they can push out smaller sites. But is it a good long-term goal?
For my own site, I've found that posting a lot of counter-intuitive stuff gets the most traffic. Covering things everyone else ignores helps me cut through the search clutter. Which is why I pretty much ignore celeb/gossip stuff entirely.
What is the cost to a mainstream site running an AP/Reuters blurb on the web? That is math here, maybe it generates ad revenue for a minimum cost.
these were not wire stories. (many of those are automatic feeds anyway.)
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