Re:Your Success Is Not a Story
by JasonFruit on Sunday January 31, 2021 @05:58PM
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Comments on the article from other journalists position it as, "and we all feel this way." Whether or not it was intended as a representation of journalistic attitudes in general, it has been upheld as one by other journalists.
Re:Your Success Is Not a Story
by herewegoagain2 on Monday February 01, 2021 @04:52AM
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Fair enough, but I would still maintain that even for "internet culture", don't let journalists shape your views of it.
I feel like I’m old, because I don’t really understand what internet culture even is. Are they talking about memes, hackathons and such?
Re:Your Success Is Not a Story
by whoknew1122 on Sunday January 31, 2021 @06:33PM
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It's not hard to find out what she writes about:
This wasn't written by Woodward and Bernstein, or some hard-hitting give-me-the-facts-only political or business reporter. It's written by someone who specifically writes about culture. She writes the following:
> "Unless your story ties into some larger cultural trend, or holds some type of important wider significance, I am not interested in covering it. And frankly, it’s not newsworthy."
If the story being pitched doesn't tie into a larger cultural trend, it's not worth covering by a culture reporter.
Someone's success can be newsworthy, but it has to impact the larger culture to be relevant to a reporter who specifically writes about culture.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/by/taylor-lorenz