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    Scoop Trendworthy
    Scoop Trendworthy
    Scoop Trendworthy
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    Scoop Trendworthy

    By Consito Ramirez

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    The Talcott Tribune (TalcottTribune31.com) is a below-average news aggregation website with one good writer and a bunch of anti-social misfits. That is, until Scoop Trendworthy, legendary news rewriter, appears from the shadows of the Internet. He's a trends expert, a master picture researcher, and, to his fellow writers, a savior.

    His skills are tested when a machine learning software company produces a program that can write the way a human does, but faster and for less money. Fake news quickly becomes a death sport, and writers around the world lose their jobs. Can Scoop Trendworthy beat a machine? Are robotic reporters an inevitability? Will he get enough sunshine and vitamin D to prevent disease?

    This short story gives a modern twist to the man vs. machine genre popular in American folk lore. John Henry. Paul Bunyan. Scoop Trendworthy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherConsito Ramirez
    Release dateMar 20, 2017
    ISBN9781370357048
    Scoop Trendworthy
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    Consito Ramirez

    Consito Ramirez writes things - comics, short stories, comics. He's the immigrant politicians have been warning you about (not the rapist, just a guy who’s here to steal jobs from native born, redneck, science-fiction writers). Someone said his writing was like Douglas Adams or Kurt Vonnegut sometimes, and just perverse at other times. Since Consito loves both of those authors, and is a pervert, he took the casual comment as definitive proof that he should share his writing with the world. Now he's on a quest even more difficult than writing a book, selling a book. When he’s not writing inappropriate stories in Starbucks, he’s busy sailing, horseback riding, and stealing other antiquated means of transportation from rich people. Oh, and don't forget about signing up for the newsletter: http://eepurl.com/ct52On

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      Scoop Trendworthy - Consito Ramirez

      Scoop Trendworthy, Story-Driving Man

      Copyright 2017 Consito Ramirez

      Published by Consito Ramirez at Smashwords

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your enjoyment only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      This is it everyone, the company's circling the drain and we're all going to lose our jobs, Editor Herman Birkham said to the entire newsroom.

      Except, he didn't say it; he typed it. And it wasn't a newsroom; it was a group chat. It also wasn't to the entire newsroom since several reporters were away from their computers or asleep. Nonetheless, it was eventually a frightening statement for everyone at the Talcott Tribune (www.TalcottTribune31.com) - the Internet's 4,236th most popular news website. It was ahead of a site dedicated to Whiteville's 1st school district and behind the blog of George R.R. Martin (not the writer).

      Birkham was right. The site was doing poorly, and he was the first victim. Rick Lolly, Editor-in-Chief, called the independent contractor into a private Skype call, gave him severance in the form of an Amazon gift card and told him to empty his cloud space. Birkham would leave, but not before scaring the team on the way out.

      Despite their poor rankings,

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