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It’s a little from column a and a little column b in practice. Puja Patel (editor in chief) is fairly open about being in a mission to increase diversity and sp
by drawfloat 3y ago
It’s a little from column a and a little column b in practice. Puja Patel (editor in chief) is fairly open about being in a mission to increase diversity and specifically covering fewer white male bands. You may spin that as “wokeness” (note: the parent never used that phrase) but it’s one and the same to covering what younger listeners were interested in over most of the last decade too. In lots of ways raging against wokeness is just the latest era of “old man shouts at cloud”.
The issue with that is it’s the same shift a lot of outlets made to try and keep pace too, which has resulted in a bunch of legacy outlets with little distinct editorial voice left. That’s not a barrier to keeping clicks, but it does feel like a failing strategy to retain cultural cache.
Though I digress, by all accounts Pitchfork had actually gone from losing money pre Puja to actually making money, so this was probably not about the outlet failing in some way. I personally agree with those noting how soon this has come after the staff unionisation vote
- paganel 3y ago[flagged]
- ykonstant 3y agoWhat the fuck am I reading.
- paganel 3y agoIt's right there in the comment. Or do you think that the programmers in here have the exact pulse on how a former hipster icon like Pitchfork went down?
- saagarjha 3y ago> It's right there in the comment. The comment you replied to is not nearly as straightforward as you. It actually reads: "why are you being a bigot?"
- paganel 3y ago[flagged]
- saagarjha 3y agoThis is not the case, has historically never been the case, and unless human nature changes drastically, will never be the case. Whether you care about something has far more influence on your knowledge and relevance than the color of your skin. Also, by the way, she grew up in the United States.
- paganel 3y agoIt was not about the colour of the skin (you missed the part where I explicitly mentioned black people in my first comment, you probably missed that), but about the huge cultural difference between the US and India.
- saagarjha 3y agoYou missed the part where I explicitly mentioned that she grew up in the United States, you probably missed that.
- dang 3y ago> A person of Indian ethnicity has no business [...] If you post ethnic slurs to this site we will ban you. No more of this please. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: it looks like you've been using HN primarily for ideological battle lately. That's a line at which we ban accounts, so please don't do that. Past explanation at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=primarily%20test%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....