alt Hacker NewsIf that were true, the job would be done by someone who took a personal interest in the subject and didn't need to be paid for reporting it. This is the opposite; it's someone doing a bad job because there's money in the profession and they want to get some of it without actually doing the work that would earn it.
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> the job would be done by someone who took a personal interest in the subject and didn't need to be paid for reporting it
I think we already have this, it's marketing and advertising. People are happy to report on things they care about, even burning money to report on it. It's just that the reason they care is because it's their thing, and they want you to buy it.
> job would be done by someone who took a personal interest in the subject and didn't need to be paid for reporting it.
You mean that the job would be done by shills then?
Why would anyone provide free labor otherwise?
OR it pays near nothing so the bottom of the barrel gets hired at low wage to keep the ghost shipping running
So by that logic, public defenders are your best bet if you get arrested?
Perhaps. Yet more likely that they're pressured into publishing so often they have little time for thorough investigations. If there were more money in it more people could afford to do it full time, and quality could improve.