Paul Graham on Twitter: "They've gotten somewhat less credible. Journalism doesn't attract the caliber of people now that it did in 1975, and hunger for clicks skews stories toward controversy.… https://t.co/4NG9qTS0tS"

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1. Lucky Me‏ @Light_bound 5 Feb 2019
  Replying to @paulg @mmay3r
  
  Be careful, Paul. Media ppl do not like to hear opinions they do not sharepic.twitter.com/Jwp7OjUgz3
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1. Gyanendra Mishra‏ @_gyani_ 5 Feb 2019
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  Maybe it does but the ease of publishing online attracts many more people to write which dilutes quality. More noise, less signal.
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1. Liam Thompson‏ @leemthompo 5 Feb 2019
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  It might the case that there is the same number of needles, but the haystacks have increased exponentially.
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1. Justin Coleman‏ @justinpcoleman 5 Feb 2019
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  It will continue until commercialised truth is more valuable to advertisers/brands than widely shared nonsense.
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1. Misha Saul‏ @misha_saul 5 Feb 2019
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  Your vastly improved access to information allows you to recognise the crappy journalism... 50 years ago it was all prestige and limited verification
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1. Tom‏ @tompccs 5 Feb 2019
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  I used to think that. Then I read Scoop (Evelyn Waugh)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoop_(novel) …
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1. Edward Dixon‏ @EdwardDixon3 5 Feb 2019
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  Only for papers with a click-driven business model - the @FinancialTimes is reliably excellent - very like a newspaper, but for grownups!
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1. Khaled Aly‏ @khaledealy 5 Feb 2019
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  Maybe its time for some sort of social journalism model.
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1. Ashwin Doke‏ @ashwindoke 5 Feb 2019
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  Ashwin Doke Retweeted Paul Graham
  
  You wont believe what Paul Graham said about Journalism .. Click below link to know.... (Headline on so many sites)https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1092739744709201922?s=19 …
  
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  Paul GrahamVerified account @paulg
  
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  They've gotten somewhat less credible. Journalism doesn't attract the caliber of people now that it did in 1975, and hunger for clicks skews stories toward controversy.
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1. Gabriel Jones‏ @aGabrielJones 5 Feb 2019
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  Both less credible due to click driven incentives and access to more info but also less direct authentication of facts.
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