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This is my biggest pet peeve with news in general. Why does a high school paper have more rigor in terms of citations than the average post from a major news or

• montebicyclelo 6y ago
  I suspect there is motivation for a news organisation not to send users away from their website.
  • ekianjo 6y ago
    Probably because content outside of news websites is a lot more worth a read.
    • remarkEon 6y ago
      And often, but not always, actually contradicts the headline and/or the content of the "news" article itself.
• som33 6y ago
  >This is my biggest pet peeve with news in general. Why does a high school paper have more rigor in terms of citations than the average post from a major news organization? Because news is not meant to inform, it's meant to indoctrinate and keep you passively under the thumb of the rich. https://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/B06Y2LSTZZ https://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Econo... >It makes digesting political news all but impossible. The question is do you know the upper classes know your brain doesn't see the world as it is, you can be told the facts and not reason to the right conclusion? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
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• specialist 6y ago
  One reason I heard, but have not verified, is that their content managements systems don't support links. Pathetic, right?