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I can't read/watch any news outlet anymore. It's become utter trash (regardless of your political leanings.) Half the time I feel like I'm reading a tabloid p
by GiorgioG 8y ago
I can't read/watch any news outlet anymore. It's become utter trash (regardless of your political leanings.) Half the time I feel like I'm reading a tabloid publication instead of a news site.
- skilled 8y agoClickbait has changed a lot of the landscape. But this is good news for self-aware people. It encourages to look for alternative and down to earth news sources.
- wycy 8y agoTrash reporting plagues the alternative news sources too.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoSadly self-aware people seem to be few and far between...
- skilled 8y agoTrue that...
- irrational 8y agoSadly down to earth news sources seem to be few and far between...
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoNot even the sources a lot of the tabloid type newspapers use, like Reuters?
- Angostura 8y agoI suggest you actually buy a good quality newspaper and read it, rather that reading their web site. You may be pleasantly surprised.
- nailer 8y agoThe NYTimes ('paper of record') just tweeted the OK symbol hoax. WaPo stated Louis Farrakhan is a right wing figure yesterday. Where are good quality newspapers?
- mediocrejoker 8y agoRead the NYTimes and ignore all the political stuff. They do a ton of reporting on every other subject.
- organsnyder 8y agoI'm not sure I'd describe Farrakhan as left-wing either, though. He sounds an awful lot like the other extremists that were banned from Facebook yesterday.
- minikites 8y ago>OK symbol hoax I haven't heard of this, what is the hoax?
- jrkatz 8y agoWhite nationalists are trying to ruin the OK hand-sign for everybody else by posing for photos in large groups while making the OK hand-sign. As far as I can tell they're attempting the following: 1. Poison the OK hand-sign in political contexts 2. Wait for a politician to use it, be it as a stooge (unaware of the new association) or as a dog-whistle. 3. Wait for the media to tie the white-nationalist association and politician's use of the symbol together 4. Cry foul: "You liberal media dogs are crazy, that's just the OK hand-sign!" 5. People who are unaware that white nationalists have been using the symbol grow their distrust of the media and may become more sympathetic to white nationalists. After all, the media was 'wrong' about the hand sign. What else could they be wrong about? Because the white nationalists are inherently duplicitous, they see no problem communicating like this - in the open until challenged, at which point it becomes a 'joke', or a 'misunderstanding', or 'media overreach'. It's not much of a hoax.
- newswriter99 8y agoHarsh, but I work in the industry and I know exactly what you mean. That's why writing business news is where it's at. The ability to slant writing becomes harder, but not impossible, when you're talking about finance and prices.
- forthefuture 8y agoThis is something I love about watching business / finance news channels. Everyone is trying as hard as they can not to lie because it's illegal in their context.
- mancerayder 8y agoPart of the problem is that due to changing revenue models, online publications have turned to controversial headlining and identity topics (the new culture wars) to generate clicks. One thing that may have influenced the NYT's decline into that strategy was their new editor, who's proudly out to poke bears: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/08/sarah-jeong-new-york-times-anti-white-racism.html http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/08/sarah-jeong-new-york-... I find stuff like this more emotive and more suited to activism than informative, and I'm more interested in information than feelings when I read the news in the morning.
- tim333 8y agoGoogle News at least lets you glance at the headlines and read what seems ok source wise. But yeah there's a lot of iffy stuff out there.