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devtesla wrote

Reply to comment by musou in Babe, What Are You Doing? by Moonside

I meant that as a compliment lol. Jez is good now.

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musou wrote

did something change over there? i haven't read it in a long time

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devtesla wrote

They stopped paying writers based on page views, basically. They don't have pump out stuff just to get clicks anymore.

They've also talked a lot about what woman's media is even for, and the distance between the change in the conversation and what really needs to change in the world. This was really good. So yea that's what I mean by a jez take lol.

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musou wrote

ok yeah that really is pretty good IMO. i don't know that i stopped reading jez for the reason they identify in that article, but i definitely am more likely to read their articles having read that critique

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Moonside OP wrote

I posted this despite the fact it was on Jezebel, but I haven't been following it for a while.

In the end, these blog sites are all surprisingly similar. I feel like the main distinctions are low-middle-(high)^1 brow and ideology and inside each basket, it's pretty similar. The writers keep circling and their work is published where ever it's published.

  1. This segment maybe doesn't really exist. Online is ephemeral, read books, journals and shit instead.
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devtesla wrote

This was written by a Jez staff writer, not a freelancer. She's been there for years.

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Moonside OP wrote

The second paragraph was me digressing into how I don't care terribly much how Woke or Good a blog is, for the reasons given, not referring to, describing or explaining the piece at hand, mea culpa. Deputy editorship of course carries more of a signal about what the publication considers itself to be.

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