Comments on: Slate: National TV sites are “Web tabloids” http://www.lostremote.com/2008/02/01/slate-national-tv-sites-are-web-tabloids/ Where TV Finds the Future Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:12:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: John http://www.lostremote.com/2008/02/01/slate-national-tv-sites-are-web-tabloids/#comment-731743 John Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:06:38 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/02/01/slate-national-tv-sites-are-web-tabloids/#comment-731743 News sites are nowadays less about news, and more about not only Britney's latest meltdown, but also the "cool" methods and gadgets editors use to tell the "stories." When was the last time your news group was on a conference call to brainstorm about words, sentences, paragraphs, stories and headlines? Managers care far less about content than they do content delivery. Leave the "cool" to the fifth graders smoking in the bathroom between classes. Just tell the freaking stories. News sites are nowadays less about news, and more about not only Britney’s latest meltdown, but also the “cool” methods and gadgets editors use to tell the “stories.”

When was the last time your news group was on a conference call to brainstorm about words, sentences, paragraphs, stories and headlines? Managers care far less about content than they do content delivery.

Leave the “cool” to the fifth graders smoking in the bathroom between classes. Just tell the freaking stories.

]]> By: oakling http://www.lostremote.com/2008/02/01/slate-national-tv-sites-are-web-tabloids/#comment-727584 oakling Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:47:43 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/02/01/slate-national-tv-sites-are-web-tabloids/#comment-727584 Hm. While their argument makes a lot of sense to me, my hope when I see headlines like that (online or off) is that they will lead me to cutting-edge investigative journalism about, say, the abuse behind the events they describe, and the effects on and connections to the rest of the world that these events have . Even though that is raaaarely the case in PRINT media. (Nudity-related ones excepted, I mean. Those are pretty clearly fluff.) Hm. While their argument makes a lot of sense to me, my hope when I see headlines like that (online or off) is that they will lead me to cutting-edge investigative journalism about, say, the abuse behind the events they describe, and the effects on and connections to the rest of the world that these events have . Even though that is raaaarely the case in PRINT media.

(Nudity-related ones excepted, I mean. Those are pretty clearly fluff.)

]]> By: nate http://www.lostremote.com/2008/02/01/slate-national-tv-sites-are-web-tabloids/#comment-727047 nate Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:25:16 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/02/01/slate-national-tv-sites-are-web-tabloids/#comment-727047 Most of these are definitely tabloidish, but the AP article on Haiti's poor resorting to eating dirt wafers (because there's no real food) is hardly "freak show" material. That's the kind of news that the rest of the world should stop ignoring! I'm surprised Shafer included it. Most of these are definitely tabloidish, but the AP article on Haiti’s poor resorting to eating dirt wafers (because there’s no real food) is hardly “freak show” material. That’s the kind of news that the rest of the world should stop ignoring! I’m surprised Shafer included it.

]]> By: Amanda E. http://www.lostremote.com/2008/02/01/slate-national-tv-sites-are-web-tabloids/#comment-726116 Amanda E. Sat, 02 Feb 2008 09:47:37 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/02/01/slate-national-tv-sites-are-web-tabloids/#comment-726116 Lets see, what do I see on the Slate front-page today? OMG, its tabloid-like headlines! Lets see, what do I see on the Slate front-page today? OMG, its tabloid-like headlines!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.lostremote.com/2008/02/01/slate-national-tv-sites-are-web-tabloids/#comment-725642 Anonymous Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:30:20 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/02/01/slate-national-tv-sites-are-web-tabloids/#comment-725642 They don't think lowly of web users, they just see the clicks the headlines generate. They don’t think lowly of web users, they just see the clicks the headlines generate.

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