How Slate’s Jack Shafer Calls Out Bogus Trend Stories
by bhousel
An old one, but it keeps coming back to my mind every time I read a story about a new "trend" that isn't. Related: http://hubski.com/pub?id=5705
“I think we write trend stories because we think they’re news,” Shafer said in a phone interview. “We write bogus trend stories because we’re wrong, we’re lazy, and we’re mentally tardy.”