Ένα καταπληκτικό κομμάτι στον Νew Yorker, για την μεγαλύτερη ιστοσελίδα του πλανήτη Γη: τη βρεττανική Daily Mail. Σωστό κοκτέϊλ έρευνας, ελαφρού σαρκασμού, ιστορικών στοιχείων, συνεντεύξεων και άποψης.
The whims of Internet audiences are unpredictable. “Things that you think are absolute dead certs sink without a trace, and things you’ve never heard of are runaway hits,” Clarke said. “You never know. One of our best-read stories yesterday was about a guy who made a portrait of his father with dots.” But Clarke is increasingly a technician, editing according to what he calls “a synthesis of instincts and numbers.” He pays close enough attention to the data so that he has developed a taxonomy of animal stories. “The animals that do best are monkeys, dogs, and cats, in roughly that order,” he told Esquire. I watched him surf Mail Online’s home page, assessing the mix.
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