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What did you expect? Real Journalism? Its the Wall Street Journal, not real news. They need click bait titles in order to get more exposure and sell more ads. W

What did you expect? Real Journalism? Its the Wall Street Journal, not real news. They need click bait titles in order to get more exposure and sell more ads. What ever it takes to get a few more clicks...Their motivation like most news companies today is making money, not informing the public. They are for profit corporations after all.

butteroverflow 7y ago
That's why we need more state-sponsored news media like Pravda. A government employee subsisting on state money wouldn't have the same motivation to write clickbait articles and lie to people. Edit: Jesus Christ, I thought I could not have made the sarcasm more obvious. Turns out I could.
- roblabla 7y ago
  They might not have the same motivation to write clickbait articles, but state-sponsored news certainly has plenty of motivation to distort the facts as well. We've seen what the current US administration thinks of the truth...
- inflatableDodo 7y ago
  Hi from the UK, where one of our current scandals is the state broadcaster censoring parts of a documentary about the foreign office, directly at the foreign office's request, in order to remove comments made by Boris Johnson, in which he called the French 'turds'. The government has argued, according to leaked memos, that Johnson’s comment could cause ‘significant damage’ to Britain and that it made a mockery of the Government’s aim in agreeing to the documentary, to ‘promote Global Britain to a UK audience’."
  - butteroverflow 7y ago
    Hi from the former Soviet Union, where everything the state media says is true, and if it doesn't turn out to be true, it is because of misinformation spread by our foreign enemies. I was not aware you should not post here anything less literal than x86 assembly, now I know.
    - inflatableDodo 7y ago
      Sorry, reading back through, I think my sarcasm meter must be badly broken. I'll check the batteries.
- airstrike 7y ago
  It was pretty obvious to me haha and a great comment. The WSJ is a fantastic organization imho, at least as good as any media organization can realistically aspire to be
airstrike 7y ago
> Its the Wall Street Journal, not real news. What exactly is real news to you, then? I think the WSJ / Bloomberg are pretty much as good as media gets. Or if you think no media outlet is "real" and they're all motivated by profit, then that just means your definition of "real news" is entirely inaccurate.
dang 7y ago
Would you please not take HN threads on generic flamewar tangents? They are predictable and therefore uninteresting. They also quickly get nasty. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20302240 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20302240 and marked it off-topic.

butteroverflow 7y ago

That's why we need more state-sponsored news media like Pravda. A government employee subsisting on state money wouldn't have the same motivation to write clickbait articles and lie to people. Edit: Jesus Christ, I thought I could not have made the sarcasm more obvious. Turns out I could.

roblabla 7y ago
They might not have the same motivation to write clickbait articles, but state-sponsored news certainly has plenty of motivation to distort the facts as well. We've seen what the current US administration thinks of the truth...
inflatableDodo 7y ago
Hi from the UK, where one of our current scandals is the state broadcaster censoring parts of a documentary about the foreign office, directly at the foreign office's request, in order to remove comments made by Boris Johnson, in which he called the French 'turds'. The government has argued, according to leaked memos, that Johnson’s comment could cause ‘significant damage’ to Britain and that it made a mockery of the Government’s aim in agreeing to the documentary, to ‘promote Global Britain to a UK audience’."
- butteroverflow 7y ago
  Hi from the former Soviet Union, where everything the state media says is true, and if it doesn't turn out to be true, it is because of misinformation spread by our foreign enemies. I was not aware you should not post here anything less literal than x86 assembly, now I know.
  - inflatableDodo 7y ago
    Sorry, reading back through, I think my sarcasm meter must be badly broken. I'll check the batteries.
airstrike 7y ago
It was pretty obvious to me haha and a great comment. The WSJ is a fantastic organization imho, at least as good as any media organization can realistically aspire to be

airstrike 7y ago

> Its the Wall Street Journal, not real news. What exactly is real news to you, then? I think the WSJ / Bloomberg are pretty much as good as media gets. Or if you think no media outlet is "real" and they're all motivated by profit, then that just means your definition of "real news" is entirely inaccurate.

dang 7y ago

Would you please not take HN threads on generic flamewar tangents? They are predictable and therefore uninteresting. They also quickly get nasty. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20302240 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20302240 and marked it off-topic.