Death By Blogging, NYT Style (Part 1)
Article by Jason Lee Miller who is a WebProNews editor and writer covering business and technology. I hope won’t met my death by blogging. That would be quite scary.
I’m not sure the last time I saw a New York Times piece that failed to convince, well, anybody. It may be because Matt Richtel made the classic mistake of developing a thesis and sticking to it until he found some evidence. (Academic tip: A good thesis comes after research.)
Richtel’s thesis that the blogosphere (or the home office) constitutes “the digital-era sweatshop,” wherein cardiac arrest seems as eventual as black lung, proved an attention-getting one. The post, entitled In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop, was the number one most blogged NYT story over the weekend.
It trumped—by six places—Thom Shanker’s piece about how the US Army is concerned about the stress soldiers face as a result of multiple Iraqi tours. You can blame Shanker for the poor showing. He failed to mention bloggers at all.
And if you work for the most prominent news source in the world, that’s missing out on a golden linkbait ticket. Really? Not one mention about the stress bloggers are under and how it compares to post traumatic they-were-shooting-at-us stress disorder? Don’t you guys collaborate on these things via—oh, what are they called?—editorial meetings?
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