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Its because its likely a reprint of a pre-packaged ad/media release that's doing the rounds dressed up as news/an article. From one of the original articles fr
by ACow_Adonis 6y ago
Its because its likely a reprint of a pre-packaged ad/media release that's doing the rounds dressed up as news/an article.
From one of the original articles from the gold-coast:
"The extraordinary story of a Gold Coast private detective paid to gatecrash funerals and tell uncomfortable truths is to be made into an ‘emotional and confronting’ TV series."
They even managed to get the story run by our national broadcaster, which is SUPPOSED to be ad/marketing free, but these days shrug, just dress it up as an article and its on for young and old...
- mturmon 6y agoYeah, people should be aware that Newsweek magazine has itself died and been brought back. It’s just a name at this point, I don’t think it retained any editors or writers from its earlier incarnations. For more on what it looks like at the bottom of the cesspool of click driven “journalism”: https://www.cjr.org/special_report/newsweek.php https://www.cjr.org/special_report/newsweek.php > Newsweek has the name and the professional website it has built in years past, but it’s increasingly repurposing the work of others—whether the Washington Post, the outrage fiends at Fox News, or a dozen people on Twitter—and packaging it as its own. Plenty of news sites aggregate, and in many ways the story of Newsweek is the story of the industry. But whereas other aggregators—Mashable, BuzzFeed, Upworthy; the list goes on—built their sites around this kind of internet-first strategy, Newsweek is selling off its own legacy while hoping that readers won’t notice.