The Romenesko lemmings

Another person who can't figure out the difference between the aggregator and the original source (who's a Fruit Loop, but not an aggregator).

EDIT: To be fair, that last person acknowledged the difference once it was pointed out.

 

At least Romenesko is not as much of a bore as Jim Hopkins.

 

I'd say this is a decent, if not comprehensive, cross-section. I'd like to finish lunch, so I'll take a break from this.

 

Funny you should mention him. There were people who called for him to investigate things, too. To be fair, I think Jim H. did choose to FOIA things a couple of times, whereas Romenesko chooses to use the "When did you start beating your wife?" tack to try to bully places into responding, or he simply runs one side of an issue without bothering to get the other.

Then the lemmings run with/RT/Facebook the one-sided take. Wow, another issue that should have been in the original post!

 

Also, perhaps now that Romenesko is "semi-retired," the previous post could say "chose to use."

 

That's crazy. Journalists should know better.

Media coaches/editors care much more about aggregating than ... what was the other thing you mentioned?

 

Marry, Fuck, Kill:

Romensko's lemmings
the SEC narrative
ISIS

 

Well, I'd have to kill ISIS.

From there, I guess it's a question of whether the narrative or the lemmings could be tolerated long-term.

 

I should have stopped reading this thread after one or two posts. Complete waste of time. I thought eventually it would dive into something thought provoking. I was wrong.

 

Well, of course not. First I had to mine a bunch of Twitter posts that were mind-numbing the first time around because Ragu was too lazy/inefficient to find them.

Then it got jacked, which was to be expected.

What would you consider to be "thought provoking?"

 

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