Drew Curtis
Drew Curtis
Drew Curtisis the founder and an administrator of Fark.com, an Internet news aggregator. He is also the author of It's Not News, It's FARK: How Mass Media Tries to Pass off Crap as News in May 2007. He is a guest on WOCM's morning show The Rude Awakening Show every Tuesday. Curtis was the Independent Gubernatorial candidate for Governor of Kentucky in 2015, but then lost to the Republican Nominee Matt Bevin...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth7 February 1973
CountryUnited States of America
I'm actually an evil bastard in real life. Fark allows me to vent weirdness. Thank god for that, too.
ESPN has this problem with sports, it's impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments.
Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.
Journalism is straying into entertainment.
On the Internet, news is consumed a la carte. If someone shows up on the main page of a website and doesn't see anything of interest, they leave. This negatively impacts ad revenues. The solution on the Internet is to pack news websites full of things that will draw people in, regardless of whether they are news or not.