September 11th, 2014
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The “we need to have something on this” impulse leads to the worst (professional) writing on the web.

Alex Pareene on Takes, “the online media phenomenon wherein nearly every single outlet that produces “content” finds itself compelled to produce some sort of content related to some sort of news (or pseudo-news), despite having no original reporting or intelligent analysis to add.”

Read his first post The Taking Of The Media and follow up A Second Look At The Giant Garbage Pile That Is Online Media, 2014 on The Dish.

(Source: dish.andrewsullivan.com)

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