Tech Republic says:

> According to the People's Daily, production per person has increased from 8,000 pieces to 21,000 pieces. That's a 162.5% increase.

I'm highly suspicious of the factual accuracy of anyof these news reports.

It's scary how quickly all "data" in articles suddenly seems to have gotten unreliable.

I hope this leads to a resurgence in journalistic integrity. I would gladly pay for news I can trust.

I'd argue that such hasn't suddenly become unreliable. It was always unreliable, it's now far easier to fact check (and frequently do so in exchange with experts in a given field, as happens so often here). Now you have a million eyeballs on the bogus claims / data, and those eyeballs frequently have fast, easy access to vast research sources.

Today if the President says something bogus, it'll be fact checked in minutes by a thousand people and that fact checking will be syndicated globally nearly instantly on a dozen large media platforms. By comparison, consider the process, access and distribution that existed at the time of FDR (the things you can get away with when it takes a week or a month for distribution to occur).

We have a lot of historical examples from the last two centuries, to show that data accuracy and reporting in terms of commerce, politics, military, journalism etc. were not particularly extraordinary in the past. Agenda, laziness, bad research, bad reporting, misinterpretation, etc. are nothing new.

There is that, but also there's been increasing pressure to pump out more faster due to more competition, and people paying less/nothing. I think quality-per-article has probably gone way down in the last decade, but we do have a ton more articles.

They are also paying less salaries, so depending on their margins they might be making more profit that way, which is the actual thing that counts and not output volume.

Exactly! Thats what people don't get!

You can even now charge more because the quality better now!

The future will be like: better sell ten iPhones for 10.000 than 100 for 1000.

Why?

Less support,less headache,less struggle to organise the production etc.