Originally published at: Forbes' content landfill has its moment | Boing Boing
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The only stuff I read on there is from Paul Tassi about video game stuff and i’m surprised he’s still writes for that publication when there are a few gaming publications who would pay him more to write for them.
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Forbes is a great case study of a brand completely debased by the greed of its owners. It’s appropriate that this was its fate as it went from “capitalist tool” (its earlier tagline) to “late-stage capitalist cash cow”.
For years now, any time I see a person touting himself as a Forbes writer or find a product or service advertising itself “as seen in Forbes” the needle on my scam alert swings to “high probability”.
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Was it ever deserving of that, though? Seems like they’ve been making the same glaring omissions for a long damn time. The real power of wealth is the illusion of wealth and there’s perhaps no greater peddler of that illusion than Forbes.
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Holy crap – I listened to the track. That took more minutes off my life than it took to listen.
Amazing. Like when MIT announced they created a Blacker Black Than Vantablack, until now I would have said it was impossible to be Whiter Than Pat Boone.
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Is there an award for most annoying person, she’d be a top contender.
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I love how it’s immediately become a black hole sucking in anyone who goes near it, even on adjacent subjects.
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You should have an “Event Horizon” warning label on this article.
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That’s it: I’ve suffered spaghettification of the brain.
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It wasn’t a great brand in terms of core values (“isn’t being rich the best?!”) but there was an expectation of editorial competence that placed it in the same rank as Fortune or Businessweek rather than being classed as complete billionaire porn like The Robb Report. That was thrown out the window when the owners turned it into a content mill/vanity press.
Ironically, the last memorable piece of good journalism they did was when their early on-line unit exposed the serial fabulist/fraudulent journalist Stephen Glass over his work in The New Republic (another magazine that, for different reasons, is now a shadow of its former self).
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I’m a writer, a poet, a genius, I know it
I heard they’re working on a vaccine for that, but so far it’s only effective against the Marinara variant…
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The print mag wasn’t that great, but its worst sin was financing the presidential ambitions of Malcom’s charisma-bypass-surgery-survivor son Steve. Yet you do have to admit Forbes the Younger was right about this:
Also, too: “content landfill” is [chef’s kiss].
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One of the nice touches in Succession is their mockery of Steve Forbes all these years later via the pathetic Conner character and his Libertarian presidential ambitions.
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Ha! I thought he was more Trumpian, but Forbes is a better fit.
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I think I’ll just add “Forbes” to my block list. Easier than trying to figure out if the author is genuine.
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“Forbes , an illustrious business magazine on a par with Fortune and Bloomberg Businessweek , transformed its website into a growth-obsessed blog platform more than a decade ago”
I found this out exactly a decade ago when a music journalist posted a review of my home recorded weirdo folk music cassette in his Top Ten on the Forbes site. It was nice of him and got me a few extra soundcloud plays but it was also very strange to have my weird shit associated with Forbes in any way.
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Yeah, I have read articles that Forbes online is basically a content mill with people. My kiddo, who I am very proud of, was featured in a write up as she developed an online course for SEO and Pintrest.
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[…] if Quentin Tarantino made movies about business magazines.
I’d watch that.
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