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Honest question, as someone who doesn't use Twitter: why don't you just read the papers? For the specific case of the Paris riots, you could check on Le Figaro
by vladvasiliu 3y ago
Honest question, as someone who doesn't use Twitter: why don't you just read the papers?
For the specific case of the Paris riots, you could check on Le Figaro (right-leaning) and Le Monde (left-leaning) – yest, both of them.
I find that following two newspapers allows me to get a balanced-enough take on current events. No need to try to decipher some ultra-short quip from random people and infer the 90% of missing context on my own.
- orbz 3y agoI can see the sweet spot for community-driven/social journalism: - Get updates between the new cycles. If you can get the scores for the football match in tomorrow’s paper, why even need to see the game? - Get more targeted information, i.e. my favorite pastry shop is where some stuff went down, was it impacted? Someone might have commented on that/taken photos nearby. - Get an even more unbiased opinion. Both the right and left leaning papers might have the same sponsor they happen to not make disparaging remarks about, or the local government might be able to quash things. Then again wherever you have eyeballs looking you’ll have people trying to push an agenda in the raw feed, whether it’s political, economic or clout chasing.