Criticism
Demand Media has attracted criticism from Internet watchdogs for being one of the largest buyers of articles and videos, purchasing thousands of search engine-driven content from low-paid freelancers to use on its websites to attract advertisers, such as Google's AdSense.
Demand Media has also been criticized for its accounting methods, such as capitalizing the costs of content and amortizing them over five years, giving them the appearance of profitability.
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Famous quotes containing the word criticism:
“Parents sometimes feel that if they don’t criticize their child, their child will never learn. Criticism doesn’t make people want to change; it makes them defensive.”
—Laurence Steinberg (20th century)
“It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men’s genius. By virtue of style, criticism can itself become literature. But usually this occurs only when the writer is acting as critic of his own work or as outrider to his own poetics, when the criticism of Coleridge is work in progress or that of T.S. Eliot propaganda.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)