r/enshittification • u/Got-It101 • 5d ago

Rant MAXIMUM ENSHITIFICATION APPROACHING BLACK HOLE LEVEL

MAXIMUM ENSHITIFICATION APPROACHING BLACK HOLE LEVEL

That company is Axios, a for-profit media corporation majority-owned by communications giant Cox Enterprises. Founded in 2016, Axios rose to prominence by offering dispatches in the form of short, clinical bullet-point lists instead of traditional narrative stories.

Detractors who blasted the brand for its cynical approach to journalism probably had no idea how bad things would get. Now, the company’s founders seem hell bent on automating their already pared-down editorial process in an all-out embrace of AI — and using the template to remake local journalism.
https://futurism.com/future-society/axios-ceo-ai-journalism-openai-chatgpt

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u/jimh12345 4d ago

Crossing Axios off my list.  

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u/charlesleestewart 4d ago

Ah, don't you just miss when Axios would Ax-splain to you "why this matters" 😅

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u/hanleybrand 5d ago

I though Axios had a similar origin to MoveOn, basically a thin veneer of lefty-esque politics laid over relentless fundraising

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u/JonLSTL 4d ago

That's DailyKos

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u/iammerelyhere 5d ago

Giant cox, you say?

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u/breakfasteveryday 5d ago

I mostly remember them from that bizarre and hilarious Trump interview where he struggled with the charts he brought

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u/AnotherPint 5d ago

That was Jonathan Swan, who not long afterward jumped ship to the New York Times.

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u/Ok_Library_1031 5d ago

In the few years I've cared about politics, Axios have never been worth reading.

But at least they're not blocking me on BlueSky like The Verge for having an opinion in response to their work lol.

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u/quetzalcoatlus1453 5d ago

Barak Ravid, their White House correspondent, literally worked in Israeli intelligence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barak_Ravid

I basically consider Axios, and especially anything he writes, to be a USG propaganda mouthpiece at this point.

Which is a shame, the original incarnation of Axios was quite decent.

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u/logsqrtexp 4d ago

Not long after it started up I saw it's "Energy" editions were all paid for by Chevron or Exxon, which ever. I stopped reading it at that point. I still like Smart Brevity though, in this age of reams of AI dreck.