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For comparison, here's the top ten from the last 24 hours of r/news and r/politics: r/news: >U.S. Court: Detroit students have no right to access to literacy

by imh 8y ago

For comparison, here's the top ten from the last 24 hours of r/news and r/politics: r/news: >U.S. Court: Detroit students have no right to access to literacy >Man’s life ‘destroyed’ following classmate’s false rape allegation >For only the second time on record, no one killed by tornadoes in US in May or June >UK government to ban 'gay conversion therapy' >California Supreme Court rules Yelp can't be ordered to remove bad reviews >3 year old girl dies after mass stabbing at her birthday party >Rachel Dolezal charged with welfare fraud. >Seattle bans plastic straws, utensils at restaurants, bars >Student Discovers Plastic-Eating Bacteria Which Could Solve Global Pollution Crisis >New charges filed against Harvey Weinstein ------------ r/politics: >Trump declines request to lower flags in memory of Capital Gazette shooting victims >Fox News Suddenly Questions Michael Cohen’s ‘Credibility’ >Whistleblower: EPA's Pruitt kept secret calendar to hide meetings >Judge rules that Trump administration has been wrongly detaining asylum seekers >Maxine Waters is done with 'nice guy politics' >Companies buying back their own shares is the only thing keeping the stock market afloat right now >Fifth Circuit Says No, You Fucking May Not Strip Search A Classful Of Female Students To Find $50 >The Official White House Twitter Account Attacked Senators Who Have Been Critical of ICE >Dinesh D'Souza, Recently Pardoned by Trump, Shares Tweet With #burntheJews >Ex-Republican Operative Steve Schmidt: ‘The Party of Trump Must Be Obliterated. Annihilated. Destroyed’

coolgeek 8y ago
I'm not sure what your point was in posting this. A few points: First off, Reddit isn't news media, it's social media Second, "the top ten" is a collection of links from other sites that rise or fall based on their popularity with the readers, not writers. Third, almost all of these headlines (which, bu subreddit rules, must match the article headline), state a fact.
- imh 8y ago
  I posted these exactly because of the same sort of distinctions as you made. The parent comment showed what's at the top of an algorithmically curated list. The commenter stated "If you mainly get your news from social media, you have a biased view of the news itself." That got me wondering what an analogous list for social media looks like, so I looked it up. Others might wonder the same thing, so I shared. I chose r/news because it's literally supposed to be news. I chose r/politics because politics seems to be more divisive news.
  - coolgeek 8y ago
    Ah, I overlooked that last sentence in the parent post on the first read.

by imh 8y ago

coolgeek 8y ago

I'm not sure what your point was in posting this. A few points: First off, Reddit isn't news media, it's social media Second, "the top ten" is a collection of links from other sites that rise or fall based on their popularity with the readers, not writers. Third, almost all of these headlines (which, bu subreddit rules, must match the article headline), state a fact.

imh 8y ago
I posted these exactly because of the same sort of distinctions as you made. The parent comment showed what's at the top of an algorithmically curated list. The commenter stated "If you mainly get your news from social media, you have a biased view of the news itself." That got me wondering what an analogous list for social media looks like, so I looked it up. Others might wonder the same thing, so I shared. I chose r/news because it's literally supposed to be news. I chose r/politics because politics seems to be more divisive news.
- coolgeek 8y ago
  Ah, I overlooked that last sentence in the parent post on the first read.