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The entire thing is lazy. At this rate, we're gonna get a Weekend Update segment where they literally just read Twitter on air, and it will be indecipherable f
by bsimpson 5y ago
The entire thing is lazy.
At this rate, we're gonna get a Weekend Update segment where they literally just read Twitter on air, and it will be indecipherable from what passes for "news" on most of these sites.
"This week's biggest critique of Biden's plan came from @massiveanus47, who wrote…"
- gigaflop 5y agoThat's the direction most 'journalism' takes. Minimal effort, lots of filler to pad out space, the one thing you actually cared about buried in the second-to-last paragraph, but not completely answered. The biggest example of this I see is when I search for info about student loan cancellation or suspension. One particular website, which is known for paywalls and usually has some sort of "X free articles" popup, hosts what amounts to an editorial column by some guy, who always seems to have articles on the topic, but barely provides any kind of real information. Of course, there are link callouts to other articles on that site, written by the same guy, which look like they'll be informative. They're usually not. They still eat up one of those "X free articles" slots and try to bombard you with ads, however!