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It is incredible the speed with which the writer is pushing the reader to have an ethical reaction. The actual factual details are buried at the end of the arti
by jessriedel 6y ago
It is incredible the speed with which the writer is pushing the reader to have an ethical reaction. The actual factual details are buried at the end of the article, but everything you need to feel vaguely outraged is given immediately.
Do journalists do this consciously, or is this writing style just in the drinking water now?
- flipcoder 6y agomore outrage -> more clicks/shares -> more ad money
- morpheos137 6y ago>Do journalists do this consciously, or is this writing style just in the drinking water now? Woke Pravada, umh I mean NPR, certainly does. I am surprised they did not start the article by discussing the race and gender identity of the pseudo-embryo.
- refulgentis 6y agoThis attempt to launder traditional political narratives onto a NPR article is admirable, but misguided enough that it came off as self-serious and worth a chuckle, not a nod: why does concern about the line between human life and an embryo have you jump to worrying about woke left wingers and race and identity?
- horns4lyfe 6y agoIt’s not hard to project that on to NPR. I recently read a article on their website about the dangers of white children using black avatars in video games, that’s their schtick now.
- andagainagain 6y agoThey do this consciously, absolutely. And they have for over 100 years.
- azekai 6y agoI have a few feet away from me a newspaper from 1943 (the Wichita Kansas Sunday Beacon). I recognize that all stories have slant, but the older publications lack the breathless emotional manipulation that seems to pervade every news outlet nowadays.
- andagainagain 6y agoThis comes down to reputations largely. I'm sure that 1943 paper tried very hard to keep their reputation. But there is a whole term for thteh sensationalist style of newspapers called Yellow Journalism that's been around for a VERY long time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism And that's just that one term. Before that, wealthy people literally made newspapers to try to push their own points of view onto the public. Heck, the USA was arguably founded on propaganda newspapers. They certainly weren't regularly fair and objective representations of truth, and rarely even tried to be.
- jessriedel 6y agoIt has existed for 100 years, but it was not as prevalent in high status papers. Just compare front page of NY Times today vs 30 years ago. Journalists actually used to use the inverted pyramid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_%28journalism%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_%28journalism...