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  1. remember when the internet was about cat pictures am the occasional adult content?

    now it's a hellhole with demons sucking at every opening they can

  2. Bullsh-t "ghostwriters" can make a six figure income writing a consistent stream of nonsense without a background in anything they're writing about (seen so many NY Post articles on these women making hundreds of thousands and buying things outright in cash being "ghostwriters" with basic writing courses).

  3. The entire smt v review completely disintegrated any respect I may have had left for them, especially because they butchered one of the best rpg series ever, and this certainly doesn’t help lmao.

  4. 1. Find random tweet about gaming
    2. Copy and paste information
    3. Slap it on IGN
    4. Collect $20
    5. Repeat this a dozen more times per day
    I don’t see the downside

  5. Working for bigger companies doesn't mean bigger payouts. It just means they can get away with paying less.

  6. is ign profiting more than $20 per ad? like what are they gonna make off of this. I can’t imagine its as bad as it seems. Maybe im just ignorant to how much an article can profit.

  7. I own a small hometown newspaper in a rural area in the United States, so I feel at least a little bit qualified to weigh in on this topic. Twenty dollars is abysmal for freelance work of any kind short of copy/paste, and I would never accept copy/paste "journalism" in my publication. If a story is not interesting enough for my reporters to do actual work to further investigate or explore the story and then make a demonstrable contribution to it's understanding, then the story is not worth taking up space either in print column inches or on the Web. Our time and space is valuable, and we can spend it doing more constructive things. You are absolutely correct in your assessment that this low rate makes sense in the context of IGN's typical story material and why it is the way it is. That said, I can't help but feel that this tweet from IGN was really kind of a fishing expedition more than anything else. I think they wanted to float these rates to see if they could get away with it. It's sad, really, and it's indicative of what's going on in the journalism world as a whole right now. Story quality and journalistic integrity is on the decline, and, as a result, people value the news less with each passing year. Prominent news outlets are not helping the situation, either. They publish increasingly partisan and ever more slanted stories that are either cherry-picked or spun to conform to the particular news outlet's political affiliation — and they are doing so with rapidly decreasing subtlety. Often times the reporters who wish to do better simply cannot do so because they are hamstrung by what outlets demand and what they offer to pay. We do our best to be the exception to this, but even we feel the pains of dwindling public interest here in small town USA, where the appetite for local news is now next to nonexistent.

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