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As someone who has cut themselves off from most news outside of HN, is this article actual news or is this just a website trying to stir the pot for clicks

by idrios 5y ago

bigbillheck 5y ago
Are you asking if 'the Associated Press' is a legitimate outfit?
gentleman11 5y ago
Associated press is considered a pretty trustworthy and neutral news service, or was at one point anyway. Why would a story about surveillance plans be “just to stir the pot for clicks”?
- gccs 5y ago
  We live in the era of headlines where the content of the article is irrelevant
- idrios 5y ago
  I've grown very cynical of the source/intention of any news I encounter. Ad revenue or shifting political opinion in their favor would be the reason to stir the pot. Not every new institution created by the govt gets posted on Hacker News and the verbage in the headline triggered red flags for me. As a conservative, it would make me concerned over government surveillance possibly targeting me. As a liberal, it would make me concerned over the presence of domestic extremists. So I was trying to gauge how I should feel about this story, whether 'ramping up' means creating a new NSA, or forming a volunteer committee that meets once/week.
wsh 5y ago
The Associated Press, a cooperative owned by its member newspapers and broadcasters, is the most important American news wire service, and APNEWS.COM is its public website. If a story moves on the AP, it’s news, almost by definition.
tablespoon 5y ago
> As someone who has cut themselves off from most news outside of HN, is this article actual news or is this just a website trying to stir the pot for clicks I think it's real. IIRC, the Biden administration has been saying they're going to make "domestic extremism" a federal law enforcement priority and they're planning on throwing a lot of resources behind it. I beleive their position is that it got too little attention in previous administrations vs. stuff like drug trafficking and Islamic terrorism. This kind of monitoring fits with that, and seems to be reporting on a detail of those plans.
bioinformatics 5y ago
I think it you should cut HN from an actual source of news too.

As someone who has cut themselves off from most news outside of HN, is this article actual news or is this just a website trying to stir the pot for clicks

by idrios 5y ago

As someone who has cut themselves off from most news outside of HN, is this article actual news or is this just a website trying to stir the pot for clicks

bigbillheck 5y ago

Are you asking if 'the Associated Press' is a legitimate outfit?

gentleman11 5y ago

Associated press is considered a pretty trustworthy and neutral news service, or was at one point anyway. Why would a story about surveillance plans be “just to stir the pot for clicks”?

gccs 5y ago
We live in the era of headlines where the content of the article is irrelevant
idrios 5y ago
I've grown very cynical of the source/intention of any news I encounter. Ad revenue or shifting political opinion in their favor would be the reason to stir the pot. Not every new institution created by the govt gets posted on Hacker News and the verbage in the headline triggered red flags for me. As a conservative, it would make me concerned over government surveillance possibly targeting me. As a liberal, it would make me concerned over the presence of domestic extremists. So I was trying to gauge how I should feel about this story, whether 'ramping up' means creating a new NSA, or forming a volunteer committee that meets once/week.

wsh 5y ago

The Associated Press, a cooperative owned by its member newspapers and broadcasters, is the most important American news wire service, and APNEWS.COM is its public website. If a story moves on the AP, it’s news, almost by definition.

tablespoon 5y ago

> As someone who has cut themselves off from most news outside of HN, is this article actual news or is this just a website trying to stir the pot for clicks I think it's real. IIRC, the Biden administration has been saying they're going to make "domestic extremism" a federal law enforcement priority and they're planning on throwing a lot of resources behind it. I beleive their position is that it got too little attention in previous administrations vs. stuff like drug trafficking and Islamic terrorism. This kind of monitoring fits with that, and seems to be reporting on a detail of those plans.

bioinformatics 5y ago

I think it you should cut HN from an actual source of news too.