Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Rebelbase
the media echo chamber, including Google News searches for “climate change” placing the Politico articles at the top of search results.

Most creative writing these days is directed at global warming, and it is 100% negative. It must now be a required assignment in creative writing/fiction/propaganda/journalism college classes. Statistically the positives and negatives should fall roughly 50/50, not 0/100. Readers can too easily detect they're being had.

11 posted on 01/17/2020 6:28:33 AM PST by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: Reeses

... creative writing these days is directed at global warming, and it is 100% negative. It must now be a required assignment in creative writing/fiction/propaganda/journalism college classes.
_____________________________________________________
There is even a subgenre of dystopian, apocalyptic fiction called ‘cli-fi’, for ‘climate fiction’. The results are the usual mixed bag, depending on how close to the truth they are.

As for the content marketing market: these writers game the goog algorithm by including key words, special characters, a number or percentage and keeping within a set number of characters in the headline. Much of the content is noticeably recycled. Any subheadings are derived from popular searches, making the entire process even more of a closed loop. The only goal is to rank in the first three search returns (below the paid ads).

Politico is rarely news and more often content marketing.


19 posted on 01/17/2020 8:02:27 AM PST by reformedliberal
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson