Yep. How much of prime time news now is, "Have you seen what is going on on Twitter??".

The Internet killed the economics of journalism. This is the new baseline of quality, because they can’t afford talent.

> This is the new baseline of quality, because they can’t afford talent.

This is at best an incomplete statement.

Advertising moved to a more lucrative technology and if good journalism comes to depend on subscription revenue, readers are not willing to pay in sufficient number.

We are now at least two generations removed from the faint echo of grammar being taught by somewhat informed personnel. Neither the people writing nor the people reading are adequately equipped.

ChatGPT now impresses people, for pity's sake.

Talent is hard to find in all domains, for money or love.

Where is the journalistic talent? It seems exceedingly rare.

It’s gone, absorbed into other parts of the economy.

Bloomberg and Reuters for financial stories that are relevant to the markets. They have a major financial incentive to not mess it up i.e. their customers will cancel their 10,20k/yr/person subscriptions.

The financial papers are generally better than the rest.

Verge churns out an “article” every few hours that is just a bunch of Twitter embeds sandwiched between a few sentences of fluff. Sometimes they even retype what’s in the Tweets, to fill up space, or presumably if the embeds break. (Or maybe it’s some desperate SEO play). Truly atrocious content.

Even if memegen is only used by 5% of the company (it's probably much more?) it's an important enough part of the company culture that some developers were allowed to maintain/expand it on company time. It was always very active during all-hands meetings and individual posts would get hundreds or thousands of interactions from what I saw.

The question is basically 'are these memes representative of feelings within a larger subset of the company' and these sorts of takes don't really address that question at all. Memegen is not twitter.

These are literally the Google-internal-social-media version of "meaningless article about something happening on Twitter". I'm sure these articles are easy money though or we wouldn't keep seeing them.