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I don't think short articles or even just headlines is bad. The only issue is that they are horribly misleading and/or biased. I sometimes like to read Wikipedi
by Houshalter 10y ago
I don't think short articles or even just headlines is bad. The only issue is that they are horribly misleading and/or biased. I sometimes like to read Wikipedia's Current Events page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events) which is also just short summaries of news. But in Wikipedia's famous neutral style.
Reddit in particular likes to upvote things I wouldn't consider news. At one point, 50% of the articles were of the format "mildly important person says something reddit agrees with."
- uncletaco 10y agoI just went to that wikipedia page and I like it a lot. I like the idea of getting a current event, no context, just the facts, and then maybe moving on to read about it later from a publication of my choosing. It's kinda like the Yahoo! News digest without the editorializing (and it has a refreshing lack of Trump tweets).