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Publicly circulating texts such as books and news articles, in other words, create their publics not by garnering the attention of every possible reader but by addressing themselves to any reader who may choose to attend to them.
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
The format is intended and optimized for print. It’s inherently inaccessible, unpleasant to read, and cumbersome to navigate online.
PDF: Still Unfit for Human Consumption, 20 Years Later
nngroup.com
Another problem — and where the trickery often begins — is that Rotten Tomatoes scores are posted after a movie receives only a handful of reviews, sometimes as few as five, even if those reviews may be an unrepresentative sample. This is sort of like a cable-news network declaring an Election Night winner after a single county reports its results. But studios see it as a feature, since, with a little elbow grease, they can sometimes fool people into believing a movie is better than it is.
Rotten Tomatoes Still Has Hollywood in Its Grip
vulture.com
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