The Washington Post Now Publishes Something Every Minute
Found on Washingtonian on Friday, 30 September 2016
Back in May, Robinson Meyer reported that the Post publishes about 500 original pieces of content and 1,200 other things–wire stories, what-have-you. “That’s more than one story every two minutes,” Meyer marveled. The newspaper has now grown that figure by 20 percent.
That makes the Washington Post pretty much useless. Nobody is going to read all of those articles, and for the sake of quantity, the quality will suffer. The job of a news medium is to filter out the important news from the pointless ones, and do good background checks and research in order to provide readers with facts. Unless you want to be part of the useless yellow press, that is.