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The Habit of Creating A Backlog…
… and then clearing them all in one go
I began writing for a dozen new media outlets in recent times. There is something common in more than half of them.
They have somehow managed to come up with a unique strategy to kill stories. It involves a stock clearance on a given day. Confused? Well, let me explain.
In a given timeframe, you will see only one or two stories published each day. You may wait for a response, or for your story to go up. It won’t. Not yet. In fact, there will also be days when no stories get published by the publication at all.
The pattern is like… one story apiece on three days, two stories on a particular day and then a period of relative calm, with the publication not publishing even a single story. It is the proverbial lull before the storm. Then, on a particular day, 20 to 25 stories get published one after the other.
This bizarre methodology involves a unique idea of first creating a backlog, and then clearing it.
An act of schadenfreude
There’s no point in guessing that the stories published in bulk are entirely and systematically killed. They struggle to obtain views, forget the reads. The negative approach makes sure these stories escape the readers’ attention…
