Re:The chasm between public and private valuations of ‘Unico...
by Bartweiss on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @01:15PM
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The worst of tech journalism is almost always content which is novel only to a total outsider. It's like journalists say "ok, a short investigative piece should take me 5 hours of research", and then apply that 5 hours to both deep dives on topics they know well, and basic reading on topics they don't know at all.
Longform.org is a favorite of mine because it sidesteps that problem. I basically never encounter a piece that makes me think "I knew all of that already, and more accurately". Journalism that could be created by reading Wikipedia and synthesizing is often wretched, and the sheer need to fill pages prevents that.
I've found the accuracy of the pieces to be far higher than most other sources. I'm guessing a lot of that has to do with the fact that in order for a journalist to write a 20 page report on a topic, they have to research it a whole lot better than writing another 2 paragraph summary for some online editorial. That, and only the better publishers tend to be able to afford such research, and they tend to have higher standards.