The title is wrong. The title is "It's called Medium because it's neither rare nor well done". It should be "Television: It’s Called a Medium Because It’s Never Well Done". The title is missing the indefinite article "a" which misleads the reader into thinking it's about Medium, the website.
So did I. And when I read the word "loathe" I was hearing Jim Carreys delivery in "How the Grinch Stole Christmas".
What I particularly hate is when blog postings about programming end up behind paywalls. Sure well done if you find a way to earn a living, but I suspect that for most people it probably doesn't amount to much.
Anyway, now I have another domain I'd love to filter out of Google searches besides Pinterest.
Looks like the title should be corrected to possibly enable discussion of the actual article rather than the paraphrased misleading title given here. Should be:
"Television: It’s Called a Medium Because It’s Never Well Done"
Yes. It is possible that the original submitted title included this. I have submitted similarly formatted titles before and had the leading colon-delimited content automatically removed.
However, if the submitter will edit the submission quickly enough (within 2 hrs I think), then an edited title with the correction will be accepted. At least that has been my experience in the past.
I'm pretty sure this is intentional. Note how the article "a" is missing before "Medium", and the capitalization has been changed to sentence casing while retaining the upper-case on Medium.
You have to be careful with taking something from QI and believing it too much. They often stretch the truth, simplify connections, and obfuscate etymology.
I know it's shit on Medium day for some reason on HN. I admit that I just don't understand why people would be so up in arms about a $5 subscription. Like, just don't read it? But also, many of us are professional programmers and $5 to get the answer we're looking for is completely trivial. If you keep getting sent to Medium then that's a sign.
In any case, the reality of Medium is that it's a very big platform and some of what's on it is shit and some is great. And that's just the nature of platforms.
But as a publisher there, I do know that they are giving more money than they've ever announced publicly to authors and that every month their investment in quality goes up. Essentially, every new subscriber puts more money in their budget which draws in a higher caliber of author. And on top of that, there's more and more editorial work going on there which is what is necessary to bring articles up to the standard you might find in books.
Yes, the article is about TV. But this quote came up this Medium thread today and then got posted here with the word Medium capitalized in the title and nothing else. Most of the commenters took it as a jab at Medium.com. As did I.
