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This article is based on "an internet user" who "posted this brief description of his simple, stress-free life". That's a pretty low bar for journalism. But w
by wombatmobile 5y ago
This article is based on "an internet user" who "posted this brief description of his simple, stress-free life".
That's a pretty low bar for journalism.
But wait, "The post went viral."
What does "viral" mean in a nation of 1.3 billion people?
The article doesn't say. All it offers by way of quantitative data is:
"More than 60% of over 240,000 respondents to a poll on Weibo, a Twitter-like platform, said tangping was their idea of the good life."
https://www.ned.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Distinguishing-Disinformation-from-Propaganda.pdf https://www.ned.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Distinguishin...
- rchaud 5y agoIt's not journalism, it's commentary delivered in an overly formal style that's intended to denote intellectual gravitas. The Economist does 0 (and I mean zero) investigative work. They read the papers like everyone else, and will dig up bits from IMF/World Bank reports and think tanks to fill out the rest of the article.