Among the problems with news on the internet......

[bbodb1]

I did not go looking for this article, but while checking stock prices on CNBC a bit ago, I came across this interesting read about how easy it is to set up a news site and have it become 'plugged in' to the internet and advertising. Really a sad commentary on the state of the internet these days....

To show how easy it is for plagiarized news sites to get ad revenue, I made my own

The ad tech space is so convoluted, it's easy to make money from legitimate advertisers just by setting up a web page. That means there's significant incentive to create garbage — not just low-quality clickbait, but sites filled with outright plagiarized content.

www.cnbc.com

 

[x3 skier]

There's "news" on the Internet????

Cheers

 

[WVBaker]

There's "news" on the Internet????

Cheers

It does come down to how you define "news"

 

[DaveNV]

There seems to be room these days for interpretation of the meaning of some words. What passes for "news" anymore can be just about anything, as has been discussed elsewhere on Tug. Little surprises me anymore. It seems I'm regularly scratching my head and saying, "WTH?" So, if "corporations" can be people, too...

Dave

 

[davidvel]

I did not go looking for this article, but while checking stock prices on CNBC a bit ago, I came across this interesting read about how easy it is to set up a news site and have it become 'plugged in' to the internet and advertising. Really a sad commentary on the state of the internet these days....

To show how easy it is for plagiarized news sites to get ad revenue, I made my own

The ad tech space is so convoluted, it's easy to make money from legitimate advertisers just by setting up a web page. That means there's significant incentive to create garbage — not just low-quality clickbait, but sites filled with outright plagiarized content.

www.cnbc.com

It's even worse when the established news entities have a political agenda and slant the "news", caring more about advertising revenue than the truth. All major news networks do exactly this.

 

[Brett]

It's even worse when the established news entities have a political agenda and slant the "news", caring more about advertising revenue than the truth. All major news networks do exactly this.

yeah, it's a big conspiracy with the "major news networks" to "slant" the news away from the "truth" to get more advertising $$
And we all know the 24/7 cable news shows have absolutely no political "agenda"

 

[PigsDad]

You mean everything I read on the internet may not be true??? I'm shocked!

Kurt

 

[bbodb1]

You mean everything I read on the internet may not be true??? I'm shocked!

Kurt

@PigsDad ....Kurt, sit down.
We have some horrible news for you... :--)

 

[geekette]

Hey, it's ok. At least we can continue to rely on timeshare salesmen to be as truthful as they ever were. that's something, right?

 

[davidvel]

yeah, it's a big conspiracy with the "major news networks" to "slant" the news away from the "truth" to get more advertising $$
And we all know the 24/7 cable news shows have absolutely no political "agenda"

I was including the cable networks as well. None of them are unbiased. They are all hacks for their agendas. There is no line between editorial commentary and factual based news. It's not blurred, it's gone. For all new outlets, cable, airwaves, internet, social media.

 

[Talent312]

There's a whole 'nother thread on "the media," no need to repeat.

There will always be someone to whom the net speaks the truth.
They'll buy into whatever outlandish version of reality is painted,
especially if it jives with their own conceptions of the world.
Sad to say, but millions of other people will buy into it as well.
.

 

[bbodb1]

There's a whole 'nother thread on "the media," no need to repeat.

There will always be someone to whom the net speaks the truth.
They'll buy into whatever outlandish version of reality is painted,
especially if it jives with their own conceptions of the world.
Sad to say, but millions of other people will buy into it as well.
.

To be fair though, this thread is on a different aspect about how media can be 'created' and advertising captured. It is a different beastie.