Re:More News Is Being Written By Robots
by seanccox on Friday March 28, 2014 @06:39AM
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Agreed. The internet burst the bubble that news agencies possessed editorial integrity, and that has cost them business. This just helps online media transition faster in the direction of link bait bullshit. The only people who benefit from bot composition are the wealthy and powerful. I am glad the LA Times has disclosed their use of bots, and I hope others will do the same, so I can stop reading their 'work'.
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Re:More News Is Being Written By Robots
by dragonwriter on Friday March 28, 2014 @12:11PM
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> The internet burst the bubble that news agencies possessed editorial integrity, and that has cost them business.
That's a nice explanation and particularly common since the 2000s, but the problem with it is that the decline in perception of most mainstream news sources (particularly newspapers) and the resulting decline in the industry was already widely discussed before the internet, as anything other than ARPANET, existed, and certainly before it was a major factor in public perception of the news.