Content Farm Writers in Hiding
What’s it like to write for one of the new content farms, like AOL’s Seed or Demand Media? Well it seems easy, but a little unsatisfying.
“I was completely aware that I was writing crap,” said an unidentified journalist who used to write for Demand Media to MediaShift. “I was like, ‘I hope to God people don’t read my advice on how to make gin at home because they’ll probably poison themselves.”
According to the piece, which is a part of a series on content farms from PBS, the reporter Corbin Hiar had trouble even finding writers that would admit they write for Demand Media.
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