Comments on: On content farms https://dfarq.homeip.net/on-content-farms/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=on-content-farms David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Sat, 05 Mar 2011 01:49:49 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dave Farquhar https://dfarq.homeip.net/on-content-farms/#comment-6625 Sat, 05 Mar 2011 01:49:49 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=3138#comment-6625 In reply to Steve Aubrey.

The difficulty with trying to find a paper that matches your worldview is, well, most won’t. I’m more liberal than the Washington Times, but more conservative than the Washington Post. And the Washington Times is owned by the Moonies, who really don’t match my worldview.

About the best I can do is look for publications that subscribe to some code of journalism ethics, support those, and ignore those that don’t. There’s one magazine that should be right up my alley (I won’t name it) but it’s so thoroughly corrupt in catering to its advertisers that I refuse to subscribe to it, buy it on the newsstand, or even read it on the newsstand for fear of being tempted to buy the worthless rag.

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By: Steve Aubrey https://dfarq.homeip.net/on-content-farms/#comment-6621 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:59:16 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=3138#comment-6621 And of course the comment system stripped off the end-sarcasm tag I added at the end. It’s one of those days . . .

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By: Steve Aubrey https://dfarq.homeip.net/on-content-farms/#comment-6620 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:57:53 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=3138#comment-6620 The Times is getting close to setting up a paywall. I’m ambivalent about paying for their site – I know it’s worth money, that I benefit from it, and that there are real, direct costs involved. Now it will come down to a choice – is it worth my money (amount unknown right now) to keep up with a good news-gathering organization with a worldview that slants different than mine does?

I think it will come down to how much they charge and how positive my cashflow is at the time they flip the switch.

So you say I can get rich writing for content farms, eh?

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