{"id":8927,"date":"2014-11-30T18:10:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T18:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8927"},"modified":"2014-11-30T18:21:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T18:21:31","slug":"writing-about-feeling-a-great-disturbance-in-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/11\/writing-about-feeling-a-great-disturbance-in-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing about feeling a great disturbance in the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why does every online publication pile on and (re)write the same popular story, <a href=\"http:\/\/pando.com\/2014\/11\/28\/how-a-fake-star-wars-trailer-reveals-everything-wrong-with-content-journalism\/\">asks Pando&#8217;s David Holmes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you?ve spent any time consuming ?content? today, you know that a new trailer is out for J.J. Abrams? ?Star Wars? reboot. You know it?because virtually every news site on the planet, including?<a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/11\/28\/star-wars-the-force-awakens-trailer_n_6172530.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a>,?<a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/11\/28\/showbiz\/movies\/star-wars-trailer\/index.html?hpt=hp_t2\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>,?<a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/11\/28\/7297181\/star-wars-trailer-force-awakens-episode-7-stream\" target=\"_blank\">the Verge<\/a>,?<a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/11\/star-wars-force-awakens-trailer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wired<\/a>,?<a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/scottmendelson\/2014\/11\/28\/star-wars-the-force-awakens-teaser-trailer-is-here\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes<\/a>, and?<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Entertainment\/watch-trailer-star-wars-force-awakens\/story?id=27223760\" target=\"_blank\">ABC News<\/a>, has ?written? about it?in a mad dash for those delicious Internet clicks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Those &#8220;delicious internet clicks&#8221; are clicks you <em>know<\/em> you are going to get. As a content producer when you have stories you know are going to generate income that take a relatively short amount of time to write,?you are leaving yourself more time to write up more in-depth stories that might not be as attractive to advertisers, but are more attractive to readers.<\/p>\n<p>Posting a story on a popular movie trailer in effect finances?the journalism you want to see on your favourite sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why does every online publication pile on and (re)write the same popular story, asks Pando&#8217;s David Holmes: If you?ve spent any time consuming ?content? today, you know that a new trailer is out for J.J. Abrams? ?Star Wars? reboot. You know it?because virtually every news site on the planet, including?Huffington Post,?CNN,?the Verge,?Wired,?Forbes, and?ABC News, has ?written? about it?in a mad dash for those delicious Internet clicks. Those &#8220;delicious internet clicks&#8221; are clicks you know you are going to get. As a content producer when you have stories you know are going to generate income that take a relatively short amount<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[53,25,111,52],"tags":[5190,2370],"class_list":["post-8927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-blogging","category-link-log","category-web-20","category-web-2point0","tag-click","tag-finance","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-2jZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8929,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8927\/revisions\/8929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}