When they aren't plagiarizing (re-writing) what they see on the real newspaper websites, they steal ideas from magazines.
Rolling Stone puts out guides to the "must have" classic albums of Stevie Wonder, Elton John, etc. etc., so why shouldn't "The Daily Beast" steal the idea...if it gives them precious "clicks" so they can get banner ads?
Zzzzz. (And no, that doesn't mean I want a list of ZZ Top's crap...")
First off, the Grateful Dead's best can fit on a "Greatest Hits" album: "Casey Jones," "Uncle John's Band," "Touch of Grey," and what, the hippie-dippie "Sugar Magnolia?"
More disturbing than trying to amuse people with "ranked" albums almost nobody listens to anymore, is how desperately the "sea change' or "climate change" or "new paradigm" is destroying the publishing world.
Anybody and everybody can upload books to Amazon, self-publish a ton of crap, have a website, and dilute and pollute the Internet. A "dotcom bust" could happen again, and it wouldn't be bad at all. Is going back to the old days of buying a newspaper so frightening?
We see that many major publications, forced to move to the Internet and offer the latest news FREEEEEEEE, are begging, "Please, turn off your adblock" and "Please, buy an online subscription, the first 3 months for just 99 cents!" Few pay attention.
Substituting grim news about politics and crime and offering up KARDASHIANS, and lists of what Grateful Dead records are best, is awfully pathetic as an alternative. Even that ploy is failing, because everybody can toss KARDASHIAN photos around, and every asshole has an opinion on movies, music and other forms of entertainment. Some even sit behind a desk and run a camcorder and float their idiocy to YouTube.
This sub-species of silly-named parasites, including BUZZFEED and NEWSER and DECIDER and DAILY BEAST and HUFFITY PUFFITY, never break news. Their staff never breaks a sweat, just breaks wind, farting around looking for ideas to steal and news to re-write. The New York Daily News had to lay off about half their WRITING staff, including their editor, who could only gloomily tweet about the death of journalism.
It's all pretty RANK. I'd rather have a Daily News at my doorstep than the stink of The Daily Beast.
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