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Well, also, people like pandas because they're cute and cuddly and as such they like to read stories about baby pandas. Not everything is part of some giant ca

• polytely 5y ago
  It's not a capitalist conspiracy, it's just the path of least resistance, if you are in the morning meeting deciding what stories to cover, it's a slow newsday and you have a press release from the zoo announcing the birth of the panda it's easier to just report on that than to go looking for a story.
  • culturestate 5y ago
    You're right, but that's not the scenario the comment I responded to was implying. There's a difference between "oh look, there's a baby panda, this is an easy one" and participating in a months-long coordinated campaign designed to make money.