Airbnb and Uber’s sharing economy is one route to dotcommunism

Re:Airbnb and Uber’s sharing economy is one route to dotcomm... by javaispoo on Monday June 22, 2015 @04:17AM (#9756885)

Sigh - the continued slide into awful "journalism" at the graniud continues. I know someone has to give all the "new media" graduates a job, but, at least supervise the output!

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Re:Airbnb and Uber’s sharing economy is one route to dotcomm... by TeMPOraL on Monday June 22, 2015 @05:35AM (#9757192)

Here's the thing - there's no money to be gained in "supervising the output". Decency is not profitable. General population apparently doesn't give a damn about quality or reliability of the news (or even if they do, it doesn't seem to affect the profit metrics in any way).

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Re:Airbnb and Uber’s sharing economy is one route to dotcomm... by JonnieCache on Monday June 22, 2015 @05:42AM (#9757211)

To be fair to the gruan, they are not fussed about profits. They are financed by a trust arrangement, subsidized by other publications they own. They make a huge loss every year.

Hasn't stopped them becoming a kind of glossy magazine for narcissists though. I guess the data showed that buzzfeed was stealing their clicks.

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Re:Airbnb and Uber’s sharing economy is one route to dotcomm... by prawn on Monday June 22, 2015 @06:36AM (#9757370)

Not even general population. The article made it to the front page of HN.

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Re:Airbnb and Uber’s sharing economy is one route to dotcomm... by walshemj on Monday June 22, 2015 @05:51AM (#9757246)

That is in CIF not the main paper I would agree that some of the Guardians hacks output is "variable" to be generous

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Re:Airbnb and Uber’s sharing economy is one route to dotcomm... by justincormack on Monday June 22, 2015 @06:37AM (#9757374)

"Paul Mason is economics editor of Channel 4 News."

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