Cheezburger wisdom
The best quotes from Cheezburger Network founder Ben Huh’s chat with Nieman Journalism Lab:
1. “It pains me to see that journalism isn’t rethinking everything from scratch. For me, I’m looking at content from scratch.”
2. “The reason Cheezburger does not pay its users for content is that if we do, it isn’t fun any more. And we’d much rather spend our money creating a platform that’s for fun than cutting people a 25-cent check every six months. That’s just not what we’re interested in doing.”
3. “This thing called objectivity is B.S. We are being subjective merely by deciding what to cover and what we decide not to cover.”
4. “I think The Atlantic is trying to be high integrity yet push the envelope. I think The Daily Beast is trying to push the envelope, and figure out where they stand.”
5. “I actually think the best journalism comes from people who are blogging part-time. They don’t have an agenda other than finding the truth.”
* Ben Huh says news orgs should think like teens if they want to survive
* Earlier: Huh provides optimistic insight for future of journalism
“The Atlantic is trying to be high integrity”,
“objectivity is B.S”
And…
“the best journalism comes from people who are blogging part-time”
Yeah…
Why is anyone looking to this guy for thoughts about journalism? He has a poor grasp of media history (no soap operas or sitcoms prior to TV?), he’s naive (part-time blogers are all free of agendas?) and he’s known primarily for funny pictures of cats. The best thing he can do for his Circa project is stay out of the way and let others run the show.