Snarky Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 Modern journalism is circling the drain. Whatever happened to reporters like Olivia Starr? I just read a short article with the attention grabbing title "‘Star Wars’ fans left spooked as they realize a memorable Han Solo line didn’t actually happen" It was short, 5 paragraphs. NEVER mentioned the line. Makes you want to beat somebody to death with an Olympia. 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oubliette_Red Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 Propaganda or Resistance infiltrators pulling back the veil? 1 3 Dislike certain sounds? Silence/Modify specific sounds. Looking for modified whole powerset sfx? Check out Michiyo's modder or Solerverse's thread. Got a punny character? You should share it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frostbiter Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 If I were as amazed, baffled, bewildered, stunned, or shocked as much as news article said I would be I'd probably be some kind of idiot. 1 Torchbearer Discount Heroes SG: Frostbiter - Ice/Ice Blaster Throneblade - Broadsword/Dark Armor Brute Silver Mantra - Martial Arts/Electric Armor Scrapper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nurvus Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 Gotta get those clicks! 1 @Lev N Excelsior/Everlasting/Rebirth 🏒🍁🏳️🌈 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lines Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 I wrote a reply to this thread. What happened next will shock you! Read more 2 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snarky Posted October 17, 2022 Author Share Posted October 17, 2022 3 minutes ago, Lines said: I wrote a reply to this thread. What happened next will shock you! Read more Damn you. I tried clicking on that three times before I got it. *shakes old vampire fist at comp screen! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminara Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 1 hour ago, Snarky said: Modern journalism is circling the drain. First article you've read since 1882, I see. 2 1 Get busy living... or get busy dying. That's goddamn right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snarky Posted October 17, 2022 Author Share Posted October 17, 2022 2 minutes ago, Luminara said: First article you've read since 1882, I see. I read that modern journalism really took off due to....Jack the Ripper! For the first time in history a good percentage of the populace could read (Victorian era Londoners) and they could not get enough stories about Jack. So the little broadsheets became very popular, along with their ads. Tabloid journalism launched it all. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lines Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 18 minutes ago, Snarky said: Damn you. I tried clicking on that three times before I got it. *shakes old vampire fist at comp screen! It was an unrelated instruction. I think you should read more, man. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Techwright Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 2 hours ago, Snarky said: I read that modern journalism really took off due to....Jack the Ripper! For the first time in history a good percentage of the populace could read (Victorian era Londoners) and they could not get enough stories about Jack. So the little broadsheets became very popular, along with their ads. Tabloid journalism launched it all. probably also caused severe shortages for fish and chip shops and animal rescue societies. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 4 hours ago, Snarky said: Damn you. I tried clicking on that three times before I got it. *shakes old vampire fist at comp screen! This simple trick will keep you slim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InvaderStych Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 The Number One Sign You Have A Snake in Your Kitchen Yes, that is the real headline of a real "article." 3 2 You see a mousetrap? I see free cheese and a f$%^ing challenge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 12 minutes ago, InvaderStych said: The Number One Sign You Have A Snake in Your Kitchen Yes, that is the real headline of a real "article." 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xiddo Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 6 hours ago, Lines said: I wrote a reply to this thread. What happened next will shock you! Read more I used to work in the team running the social accounts for one of the big news orgs. The accuracy of this stings. 1 @Xiddo on Excel. Alts: Agent Betel - Athosin - Nisotha - Anapos - Atomic Chilli - Bainbridge - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clave Dark 5 Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 There's journalism, which isn't much practiced these days because it's not cheap and doesn't generate huge profits, and then there's clickbaiting, which both sounds like some other kind of "baiting" and rightly so, and is the equivalent of internet farming. Don't mistake the one for the other. 2 1 Tim "Black Scorpion" Sweeney: Matt (Posi) used to say that players would find the shortest path to the rewards even if it was a completely terrible play experience that would push them away from the game... ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ Clave's Sure-Fire Secrets to Enjoying City Of Heroes Ignore those farming chores, skip your market homework, play any power sets that you want, and ignore anyone who says otherwise. This game isn't hard work, it's easy! Go have fun! ╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snarky Posted October 18, 2022 Author Share Posted October 18, 2022 I had a roommate that worked as a copy editor for a newspaper. One of their co workers intentionally wrote odd headlines to get people to read the stories. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancrusher Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 Astrophysics articles are the worst. The headline is always some click-bait hyperbole: SCIENTISTS STRUGGLE TO EXPLAIN STRANGE, ALIEN, SIGNAL! *Me, rushing to click excitedly on article* Oh, yeah... it's another gamma-ray burst from a pulsar. 🤦♂️ 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
battlewraith Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 1 hour ago, Cancrusher said: Astrophysics articles are the worst. Click bait popular science stories are especially painful. I guess it's the combination of being hopeful/excited about new discoveries and the naive assumption that stories based on empirical research (particularly physics) would be somehow less prone to being utter bullshit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oklahoman Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 1 Oklahoman, Okie, Vayne Glorious, Sooner Magic, Treehugging Wacko, Boy Band, etc Farming Incarnate Salvage - 1 salvage roll every 15 minutes! || Why NO TELLS to join your little MSR thing? Using DEMORECORD To Find Who Is Sabotaging Lambda Badge Runs || https://www.twitch.tv/oklahomancoh Excelsior Bases: The Sooner State (OK-8602), Atlas Records (ROCK-29730), Generic Heroes (G-16581), Sooner Nation (SOONER-8490) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xiddo Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 8 minutes ago, Oklahoman said: If they move this topic too then @Snarky is gonna go feral. 2 @Xiddo on Excel. Alts: Agent Betel - Athosin - Nisotha - Anapos - Atomic Chilli - Bainbridge - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frostbiter Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 "Local vampire found living in a tree. You won't believe what his neighbors have to say." 3 Torchbearer Discount Heroes SG: Frostbiter - Ice/Ice Blaster Throneblade - Broadsword/Dark Armor Brute Silver Mantra - Martial Arts/Electric Armor Scrapper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mopery Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 1 3 1 Those times you saw no footprints, I had Fly toggled on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Morbid Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 In the late 90s I took a two-year journalism course in community college. One of the first things the instructor told us is that it was a dying field and we would have a very tough time pursuing a career in it. I was thinking "What a great time to tell us! Not like that would have been useful to know before we committed to this!" 1 For the scarifying misadventures of Mike Morbid, go to Twitter and look for @JMikeMorbid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MistressOhm Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 So, as a Liberal Arts graduate (talk about a dearth of job opportunities!) I learned something fairly quickly after graduation. A degree in journalism doesn't necessarily mean you're going to be a reporter or copy editor. But, the skillset of research and objective writing is incredibly invaluable in jobs where you need to communicate between teams of people. One of my jobs with The Telco was a technical instructor. What this entailed was, reading the documentation from the teams developing new stuff (be it DSL Internet or video streaming applications) and not only understanding as much nuance as I could, but also distilling all of that down into simple, demonstrable concepts that I could teach to a class. It required a 'bridge' from understanding something highly technical to communicating that same thing in layman's terms. The same can be said for journalism - not only do you have the skills to gather as much information about a topic at hand as you can, exploring it from multiple sources and angles, but also presenting it in a way that A Random Stranger could read it, and understand from what you had written, what the issue is. That's a skill that isn't limited to selling newspapers or driving clicks to a website. 1 2 AE ARC's (So Far!) -------------------- 15252 Child of the Tsoo - [SFMA] Ninjas, sorcerers, and human trafficking (Origin Story - Stick Figure/Storm Lotus) 50769 Hunt of the Eclipse - [SFMA] Finding something that was lost to Arachnos for nearly 20 years (Origin Story - Daisy Chain) 53149 Spells as a Service - [SFMA] When a young hacker makes a connection between magic and mathematics and encodes it into a computer program, chaos breaks loose! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancrusher Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 Interesting. Maybe journalism will eventually be named information communication sciences, or some such. @Mike Morbid I shudder to think of journalism actually DYING, though- especially with the huge amount of disinformation on the web, today. We need good, reliable journalism now, more than ever. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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