Slate is a Great Example of the Coming Collapse of the Clickonomy
Clicks aren’t readers. Most of them aren’t even human.
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I began reading Slate several years ago, as it was one of the first magazines available exclusively online. In my youthful naïveté, I thought Slate was going to change the world of journalism. In hindsight, back then I thought that just about every innovation was going to change the world.
Of course, Slate didn’t change the world (for the better), it just added a thin layer of imitated authenticity atop the already thick layers of fraudulent muck and hypocritical blasphemy that make up the media industry. But Slate did manage to stay slightly classier than many of its competitors, who have since brazenly transitioned to unadulterated spam, blatant bias and even guilt-tripping their readers.
Perhaps The Guardian is trying to solve the homelessness epidemic by simply starving them to death. “Don’t give them change, dear reader, there are starving journalists working in our newsroom that desperately need your donations. If you give money to every beggar on the street, they might use it to buy a copy…
