Let Me Explain Why Miley Cyrus’ VMA Performance Was Our Top Story This Morning By Meredith Artley, Managing Editor Of CNN It’s a good question. And the answer is pretty simple. It was an attempt to get you to click on CNN so that we could drive up our web traffic, which in turn would allow us to increase our advertising revenue. In fact, putting that story front and center was actually doing, if anything, a disservice to the public. And come to think of it, probably a disservice to the hundreds of thousands of people dying in Syria, those suffering from the current unrest in Egypt, or, hell, even people who just wanted to read about the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech. So, as managing editor of CNN, I want our readers to know this: All you are to us, and all you will ever be to us, are eyeballs. The more eyeballs on our content, the more cash we can ask for. Period. And if we’re able to get more eyeballs, that means I’ve done my job, which gets me congratulations from my bosses, which encourages me to put up even more stupid bullshit on the homepage. I don’t hesitate to call it stupid bullshit because we all know it’s stupid bullshit. We know it and you know it. We also know that you are probably dumb enough, or bored enough, or both, to click on the stupid bullshit anyway, and that you will continue to do so as long as we keep putting it in front of your big, idiot faces. You want to know how many more page views the Miley Cyrus thing got than our article on the wildfires ravaging Yosemite? Like 6 gazillion more. That’s on you, not us. Read more: theonion/articles/let-me-explain-why-miley-cyrus-vma-performance-was,33632/?ref=auto
Posted on: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 13:38:10 +0000
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