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[–] 16443675? ago 

If it's true, then the karma thing is too good from that irony.

I've heard that few years ago, journos wrote articles about telling coal miners to "learn to code", during when the mining industry was nearly collapsing under kang niggers green policies.

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[–] 16443677? ago 

It's funny, because if they had actually engaged in legitimate journalism and paid attention to emergent technologies, they'd know that automated news writing/publishing is going to replace them sooner than they realize. While that may not be the reason they were fired here exactly, but it's going to be a rather common story in the near future. Only the most talented journalists and propagandists will retain their jobs within a decade to provide a "human touch" to generated output.

They only have themselves to blame because by being so simple and repetitive with their pieces, a bunch of algorithms could be trained from that data, and do a better job serving as propagandists almost right now. They were making themselves redundant with every article they write.

If any of them are lurking here, my best advice is to make yourself known as someone comprehensive and actually invest time in understanding every facet of journalism, as well as data science and machine learning. If you are capable of transcribing your profession to structuring data sets and algorithms, your career prospects will last a lot longer. In other words, learn to AI, not just code.