Has this article been excluded somehow from appearing in the main Hacker News feed? It is buried very far down compared to other stories that have received less votes within the same time period. It seems to me to be a very careful analysis of an issue that has attracted a lot of discussion. Is there some sort of HN policy against meta-discussion of the site's role within the tech ecosystem?
There is a lot of justice to the points made in this article. That said, I also believe that scraper sites duplicating other content are a lot more pernicious than low quality original content. Also, algorithmically recognizing mediocre content is almost impossible, and actively discriminating against specific media companies is a dangerously slippery slope.