<story><title>CNN and USA Today have fake websites, I believe Forbes Marketplace runs them</title><url>https://larslofgren.com/cnn-usa-today-forbes-marketplace/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shipscode</author><text>Let me break down how the media industry works nowadays since there’s a lot of confusion in these comments.&lt;p&gt;Most media organizations have a small number of in-house journalists on verticals that make sense.&lt;p&gt;The rest of the content is curated and brought in from content partners and written outside of the news organization.&lt;p&gt;In practice they function more like a social media feed than traditional newspapers. I’m no fan of CNN, but this isn’t exactly a scandal, media had to adapt to keep up with so much being on social media these days, they all do this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beejiu</author><text>The context is that Google has a new &amp;quot;Site reputation abuse&amp;quot; policy that some argue isn&amp;#x27;t applied fairly between small sites and massive media sites. The policy states:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Site reputation abuse is when third-party pages are published with little or no first-party oversight or involvement, where the purpose is to manipulate search rankings by taking advantage of the first-party site&amp;#x27;s ranking signals. Such third-party pages include sponsored, advertising, partner, or other third-party pages that are typically independent of a host site&amp;#x27;s main purpose or produced without close oversight or involvement of the host site.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developers.google.com&amp;#x2F;search&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;essentials&amp;#x2F;spam-policies#site-reputation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developers.google.com&amp;#x2F;search&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;essentials&amp;#x2F;spam-po...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s why it&amp;#x27;s all hush-hush within the industry.</text></comment>
<story><title>CNN and USA Today have fake websites, I believe Forbes Marketplace runs them</title><url>https://larslofgren.com/cnn-usa-today-forbes-marketplace/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shipscode</author><text>Let me break down how the media industry works nowadays since there’s a lot of confusion in these comments.&lt;p&gt;Most media organizations have a small number of in-house journalists on verticals that make sense.&lt;p&gt;The rest of the content is curated and brought in from content partners and written outside of the news organization.&lt;p&gt;In practice they function more like a social media feed than traditional newspapers. I’m no fan of CNN, but this isn’t exactly a scandal, media had to adapt to keep up with so much being on social media these days, they all do this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hedora</author><text>There are still counterexamples:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.propublica.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.propublica.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Traditional newspapers would get stories from things like AP, and then the editors would decide what to run.  They’d also have reporters that wrote local stories, etc.&lt;p&gt;I’d argue that any news site that has eliminated all those roles is already out of business and is simply burning down their brand at this point.</text></comment>