I just found out!

My Bloody Valentine took away their major albums.

I agree with you, and yet this is an extremely Bluesky comment.

Shame is probably the variable. Or at least *a* variable.

The system creates the incentive. Some participants see a path to money/fame/success and follow it. Others are cowed by shame. Or maybe pride.

An absence of shame is a superpower in a lot of systems at the moment.

Journalism prizes incentivize reporters and editors to tailor stories for judges (who are other journalists) rather than regular people. I've seen this gamesmanship have a distorting effect on coverage.

But at least this provides an incentive other than "find a way to be popular on social media."

I was getting to it!

I am not a fan of either. Each path offers incentives that are different from "do right by the audience."

But the "attention play" is especially dangerous. It incentivizes toxic attention-getting behavior, audience capture, and many attendant forms of rot that distort the information ecosystem.

This may seem like a subtle distinction, but it points to different causes and different solutions.

Yeah, it's too bad the "mainstream media" has not reported any negative stories about Bruce Harrell.

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Didn’t Katie Wilson tell KUOW the checks arrive every couple of months?

To me, that would suggest it started sooner than September.

I think The Stranger should be careful about accusing a fellow journalist of making a factual error — a really serious thing — when they’re actually making a more subtle point about context and framing.

Is there a difference? Sure. In the first case, a reader might assume the parental support has gone on for ~ two years. Now we know it’s closer to one year.

Helpful to know. Does this justify The Stranger calling another journalist’s reporting inaccurate?

The new context is useful, but let’s just be clear about what this is about.

The criticism is that “Her parents supplemented childcare for her toddler (age 2?)” is substantially different from “Her parents supplemented childcare for her toddler for the past year.”

Katie Campbell’s original reporting of this fact was not at all inflammatory and the debate around it struck me as pretty nuanced!

Almost as if the story enriched the public’s understanding and sparked meaningful debate — something journalism is never supposed to do.

I agree: The Stranger's context was valuable! Just like @katiecampbell.bsky.social's original reporting was valuable.