Under Fire: Mashable’s Criticism Grows
9:26 PM in Internet by Marc Lequime
Now I’m in an angry mood. And I was browsing my Technology section in RSS, and once again, more spammy irrelevant news that was posted in other sections hours ago. In fact, this particular story was over by the time Mashable posted it. And look at the DISQUS comments? Very few positive ones. And yet everyone seems to share the same idea – the website is losing it’s focus as an Internet news site. They’re trying to attract visitors with crap that doesn’t correlate to technology.
I’m not complaining… well, actually, I am. Too many internet news sites are falling to popular media, then becoming ‘just another news site’. It’s really quite a sad fate.
Mashable is normally a source for entertaining news about social media, but recently it’s been posting mainstream news.
What about you? What do you think about Mashable’s new aims?
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