From June 2011 to April 2013, I was a contributor to Forbes.com. When I started, most of the other contributors were journalists, too. But by the time I stopped, we were in the minority. Most of us had been driven out by a combination of the abysmally low pay—$50 a post, which doesn’t really allow for the sort of reporting time required to write a decent story—the click-bait incentives (a $500 bonus if you hit 30,000 uniques, plus a penny more for each unique after that), and the fact that the site had been all but taken over by CEO “thought leaders” and industry shills. But wait, that’s not the punchline. It’s this: Over the past year, I’ve contributed a half dozen more stories to Forbes.com. Not under my own name, but as a ghost writer for a couple different CEOs. For that work I was paid—no exaggeration— TEN times what Forbes ever paid me to write for its site, but Forbes paid nothing for those pieces.
You are being sold to and lied to even more often than you realize, and by even the most established and credible of publications. The media outlets you trust are under such (self-imposed) pressure to serve up more and more content that they’ve turned their sites into promotional platforms.
Wow I always knew those Forbes articles were complete garbage, glad someone came forward. Just brands promoting themselves with made up ****.
Uhm, how is she not remembered when she was nominated for AOTY this year
+ Super Bowl is pretty much an undeclared Janet Jackson national holiday with the way the media and public always talk about her around the time
Uhm, how is she not remembered when she was nominated for AOTY this year
+ Super Bowl is pretty much an undeclared Janet Jackson national holiday with the way the media and public always talk about her around the time
Not to mention, we ALL go on YouTube (which was created BECAUSE of IMPACTNET).
Janet Jackson isn't really spoken about but she is remembered by the GP tbh.
Mostly as MJ's little sister but that's just because she hasn't released new music in a while.
Uhm, how is she not remembered when she was nominated for AOTY this year
+ Super Bowl is pretty much an undeclared Janet Jackson national holiday with the way the media and public always talk about her around the time
Last time I saw you
We had just split in two
You were looking at me
I was looking at you
You had a way so familiar
But I could not recognize
Cause you had blood on your face
I had blood in my eyes
But I could swear by your expression
That the pain down in your soul
Was the same as the one down in mine
That's the pain
Cuts a straight line
Down through the heart
We called it love
So we wrapped our arms around each other
Trying to shove ourselves back together
We were making love
Making love
It was a cold dark evening
Such a long time ago
When by the mighty hand of Jove
It was the sad story
How we became
Lonely two-legged creatures
It's the story of
The Origin of Love
That's the Origin of Love
