Hank Bordowitz on the publishing industry's vices within the media.
Payola into a videogenic, toyetic entities. This is the industry of the attempt to reverse engineer a hit and the unpredictable venture of it.
What does it mean to be popular now with gameable first pages, to the moment where campaigning dishonesty to court the mass streams of attention are made to serve a chicken or egg situation, the audience or the commercial appetites?
Public interaction aligns with it, not with the same intention. The average demand of the product will be drawn with each business attempt to sell. Remarkability being a choice for the herd of mass entertainment, a beckoning to separate serving the people they seek to lead.
With the commercial Zeitgeist of the sentiment of "Nobody want's to read your S**" or, "Nobody wants to give you traction." It's no wonder Google blew up, along with how integrity in the record industry was redefined today.