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I skeptical of news stories that ask the readers to play juror based on a reporter's one-sided take, often a lazy one designed for clicks. Sometimes it's neces
by chmod600 5y ago
I skeptical of news stories that ask the readers to play juror based on a reporter's one-sided take, often a lazy one designed for clicks.
Sometimes it's necessary, but most of the time it's just generating a lot of low-information outrage.
(This is apart from the larger question of whether we should abolish the death penalty. But that's not really news.)
- beerandt 5y agoThe Louisiana non-unanimous jury verdict saga just got similar, scary, one-sided newspaper treatment. Not necessary because it should or shouldn't have been changed, but because the obvious propaganda was so damn effective. And it wasn't blanket coverage by every local news outlet, but constant, serialized coverage from one, arguably dying, newspaper. Reminds you of just how powerful even a single media outlet can be when it wants to. Also, that any future that newspapers might have will require selling influence, instead of advertising and subscriptions.