Ignorance for a price

[Brian Howell]

The FTC smacked down Warner Bros. yesterday after it was revealed that the company paid to positively review a new video game. But it's nothing new. There are folks out there raking in megabucks annually in exchange for their good words. 

Extrapolating, the future of journalism doesn't look good at all, VNRs and the like already notwithstanding. 

http://gawker.com/youtubers-took-money-from-warner-bros-for-glowing-vide-1783540233

[Craig Good]

> On Jul 12, 2016, at 16:51 PM, Brian Howell <bdho...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Extrapolating, the future of journalism doesn't look good at all, VNRs and the like already notwithstanding.
>

"As the profession of journalism slowly dies, what is sprouting up in its wake are “content creators”—people who replicate the facade of journalism while skipping most of the hard stuff.”



Reading that on Gawker made me laugh.


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