{"id":4423,"date":"2012-11-28T12:04:19","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T19:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disruptionblog.com\/?p=4423"},"modified":"2012-11-28T12:04:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T19:04:19","slug":"churn-the-problem-of-the-new-tech-journalism-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/2012\/11\/28\/churn-the-problem-of-the-new-tech-journalism-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Churn: The Problem Of The New Tech Journalism | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem comes when that churn, that endless wave of news, crests over our abilities to manage and vet. There is a call, for example, to slow down when it comes to coverage. You don\u2019t care that Angry Birds Star Wars is out the moment it\u2019s released. Why not just sit on that news for a few days, really give it a good dry rub? Why not give old Mighty Eagle a call, get him on camera. Really make an event out of it. We don\u2019t do that because that\u2019s even worse than pasting in a press release. There is a very large percentage of people for whom the words \u201cHey, Angry Birds Star Wars is out. You can get it here\u201d is far superior to a 1,000-word article on how they got birds to look like Han Solo. We\u2019re not any company\u2019s marketing organ, no matter how many times we post about Apple. Those who want more can always find more. Always. So slowing down isn\u2019t the answer.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href='http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/11\/27\/churn-the-problem-of-the-new-tech-journalism\/'>Churn: The Problem Of The New Tech Journalism | TechCrunch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem comes when that churn, that endless wave of news, crests over our abilities to manage and vet. There is a call, for example, to slow down when it comes to coverage. You don\u2019t care that Angry Birds Star Wars is out the moment it\u2019s released. Why not just sit on that news for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/2012\/11\/28\/churn-the-problem-of-the-new-tech-journalism-techcrunch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Churn: The Problem Of The New Tech Journalism | TechCrunch<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}