Dylan Stableford is the latest in a series [1,2,3] of media commentators to speak out against the booming "content farming" industry. In a two-page tirade on The Wrap, mediabistro.com's former managing editor demonizes Associated Content (purchased by Yahoo! for US$100 million), producer of more than 4,000 video clips and articles per day, Demand Media (planning an IPO at approximately $1.5 billion) and AOL's young entrant to the business, Seed.

Slate Magazine's Farhad Manjoo sums up the perspective of many journalists: "Associated Content stands as a cautionary tale for anyone looking to do news by the numbers. It is a wasteland of bad writing, uninformed commentary, and the sort of comically dull recitation of the news you'd get from a second grader."

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