MiamiHerald.com: Journalism becoming a consumer product
Monday, 7 January 2008, 14:10 via del.icio.us/martinstabe
Edward Wasserman: "The problem with online Popularity Pay is it that it mistakes journalism for a consumer product, and conflates value with sales volume. Journalists don't peddle goods, they offer a professional service, a relationship." Read More...
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1. Lucas Grindley | 8 January 2008 at 0033
Too bad the entire lead of the column is wrong. I’ve called for a correction to be issued.
2. Martin | 8 January 2008 at 1022
Lucas is quite right: This column actually misses the point somewhat. Penelope Trunk was not let go because she was not generating enough traffic – it’s much worse than that.
According to her own account, the type of content she provided was apparently generating plenty of traffic, but was driving down the total CPM of Yahoo Fiinance.
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