alt Hacker NewsI don't know that this is what happened here, but any time there is a push to do more with less, you end up rewarding people who take shortcuts over those who do a proper job, and from the outside, it looks like journalism has a push to do more with less.
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arcadianalpaca • yesterday at 7:43 AM
That's basically the problem. If the shortcut produces something passable 95% of the time and nobody is checking, it just looks like you're faster. Journalism just has a more public failure mode than most fields.
> any time there is a push to do more with less, you end up rewarding people who take shortcuts over those who do a proper job
You don’t need an institutional push to make people take shortcuts.
Many people will take shortcuts to work less if they think they won’t get caught. You don’t even need external pressure.