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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
by 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 agoWe live in the era of headlines where the content of the article is irrelevant
- idrios 5y agoI'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.