It's b/c it's the NYTimes-- they actually do reporting & journalism.
There's seems to be a lot of piggybacking/freeloading off of original reporting. I was involved with a project that got a big splashy NYTimes write up and it was astonishing in the coming days to see how many joker press outlets basically crimped off the Times' original reporting. They'd include a link and all that but they'd lift the juciest quotes/content and the only thing they'd contribute was some usually sassy commentary.
It's a great little news nugget- provocative, interesting, yadda yadda.
And then before you know it, all these "summary"/"reaction" stories get published which didn't exactly contribute much or move the ball down the field:
I'm not sure if this is a real problem or not, but it seems kind of lame that those other groups get to sit on their cans and pontificate while others get out of their offices.
> In his book Flat Earth News,[3] the British journalist Nick Davies reported a study at Cardiff University by Professor Justin Lewis and a team of researchers[4] which found that 80% of the stories in Britain's quality press were not original and that only 12% of stories were generated by reporters.[1]
There's seems to be a lot of piggybacking/freeloading off of original reporting. I was involved with a project that got a big splashy NYTimes write up and it was astonishing in the coming days to see how many joker press outlets basically crimped off the Times' original reporting. They'd include a link and all that but they'd lift the juciest quotes/content and the only thing they'd contribute was some usually sassy commentary.
Here's a really vivid example-- great write up about Target detecting a pregnancy from purchase data: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h...
It's a great little news nugget- provocative, interesting, yadda yadda.
And then before you know it, all these "summary"/"reaction" stories get published which didn't exactly contribute much or move the ball down the field:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe...
http://techland.time.com/2012/02/17/how-target-knew-a-high-s...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102859/How-Target-k...
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-incredible-story-of-how-t...
I'm not sure if this is a real problem or not, but it seems kind of lame that those other groups get to sit on their cans and pontificate while others get out of their offices.