> Vice's view of politics is always like a naive high school kid who hasn't ever had a real job or read a single book on economics. Which probably accurately describes their (largely freelance) 'journalists' or more accurately bloggers.
> Makes for good clickbait for their demographic though. In an ideal world they should really have stuck to fashion and culture (which their 'talent' is good at) and left the serious topics to people who have a strong grasp of the subjects. But that's boring and doesn't generate outrage on social media aka clicks -> ad views.
The author of this piece worked at Bloomberg and CBC prior to her position as the Economics & Money editor at Vice.
Which part of that discredits what I said about the quality of content at Vice news? Her 18 years working as a “fill in“ news anchor/talking head? In between a short stint as PR pusher a bitcoin advocacy company in Toronto before earning the title as ‘editor’ of the Finance section of Vice?
Even if she’s somehow an exception to the rule at Vice as the editor, aka top tier in her category, she’d be a rarity. But looking at her previous output (only a few as she’s a recent hire) there are quite a few that fit into the clickbait vs signal ratio pandering to an ideological niche.
That’s fine if that’s your thing but I put higher standards on the HN front page.
> Makes for good clickbait for their demographic though. In an ideal world they should really have stuck to fashion and culture (which their 'talent' is good at) and left the serious topics to people who have a strong grasp of the subjects. But that's boring and doesn't generate outrage on social media aka clicks -> ad views.
The author of this piece worked at Bloomberg and CBC prior to her position as the Economics & Money editor at Vice.
"But that's boring and doesn't generate outrage".