Outlets like USA Today are hiring beat reporters to write exclusively about Swift and Beyoncé. But investing in this kind of journalism distracts from stories people actually need

I don’t understand why anyone would be surprised that a for-profit media organization is hiring reporters to report on stuff their consumers want.

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that consumers are all fucking retarded?

I think we stopped using that word in the 2000’s.

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I don’t know Swift fans are on a whole another level. They want it and there are lots of them.

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