What matters today is not if a story is real but whether people click on it.
There you go, side boobs. Websites like this will soon, very soon, be something out of the internet past. And that’s even before we lose net neutrality. Once that goes by the wayside this will be controlled much like cable, in fact controlled by the same people at the same corporations.
Information sites like this are not the only ones falling and failing, even product and service websites are losing to Amazon, eBay and Kohls.
Internet monetizing is now more dependent upon the TEN MOST SQUIRMY WORM PEOPLE than anything else. And you can’t get those unless you are already too big to fail. That’s not to mention the entire shebang moving to mobile APPS.
It’s no longer about quality, truth or journalism, rather it’s about what’s popular and what gets clicked. Kardashians! Bieber! And now we have Google News giving Breitbart, WND and The Blaze equal footing with the NYTs, CNN and Politico.
We only want to hear what we want to hear, most of which is from the shallow warm yellow end of the pool. Did you hear Orlando Bloom took a swing at Justin Beiber on the beach in Spain? I bed you did! Far more people know about that than the straight party line vote to sue the President.
SIDE BOOBS! Did I mention SIDE BOOBS?