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Not particularly a case of outrage per se, but what's up with articles quoting a couple of ~10 like tweets and pumping some small thing as if the "whole interne
by grenoire 7y ago
Not particularly a case of outrage per se, but what's up with articles quoting a couple of ~10 like tweets and pumping some small thing as if the "whole internet" is arguing about it?
Lazy authors, or does it make money?
- mgiannopoulos 7y agoBoth. It’s both highly click-baity and easy to produce.
- pessimizer 7y agoIt launders an opinion that no one at the paper would be willing to put their name to because they would be expected to explain themselves. The weirdest thing is when the tweets on those articles have < 20 likes/replies
- cagenut 7y agothe interesting thing is, quotes have always done this, now we can just see some related metrics.
- trophycase 7y agoIt ironically almost proves their point
- Semaphor 7y agoThere is a relevant quote in TFA: > So does he think he is unfairly demonised by some journalists and does that rankle? “I can’t fault them for not getting around to doing the fact-checking. You know people are busy and a lot of people in journalism have been told by their managers that fact-checking may not be critical.”