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> “--- that is foul,” one commenter wrote on Facebook. Amazingly in 2022 "journalism" constitutes copy-pasting comments from Facebook and TikTok posts. From th
by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
> “--- that is foul,” one commenter wrote on Facebook.
Amazingly in 2022 "journalism" constitutes copy-pasting comments from Facebook and TikTok posts. From the NYT no less. These are the people that think you should pay to read this paywalled rubbish. This phenomenon isn't unique to them either.
Edit: Apparently the content copy-pasted by the NYT is such trash that HN auto-dead'd my comment for merely quoting it.
- sejje 4y agoI get irrationally angry when the news reports on what people tweeted. Sometimes they're literally anonymous, unsourced one-line opinions. I've seen articles that were collections of these, passed as commentary on politics or the news!
- bpodgursky 4y agoJournalists love them because the diversity of tweets allows them to build whatever narrative they want, without even needing to make a phone call.
- nicbou 4y agoI mentally avoid a bunch of American newspapers because every article I see from them could be about a dozen people on social media. The New York Times is especially guilty of this. A dozen people tweet that they're moving somewhere, and suddenly "X are moving in droves to Y". A dozen people stop doing something, and suddenly it's "the death of X". A dozen people do something dumb and suddenly it's "we need to stop X" or "we need to talk about X" like it's 30 percent of the population.