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I appreciate your optimism but I think you got the order wrong. I'm fairly sure that the #1 source of news articles, social media posts, etc, probably by far i

by oblio 2y ago

I appreciate your optimism but I think you got the order wrong. I'm fairly sure that the #1 source of news articles, social media posts, etc, probably by far is "native advertising" aka hidden advertising (this is actually illegal in some countries) aka PR articles posted as if from the news source. https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html Once you see it, you can't unsee it.

defrost 2y ago
> but you I think you got the order wrong. Other than the fact that text is sequential I imposed no ranking, these are the two major sources. > "native advertising" aka hidden advertising aka submarine news, aka Advertorial Press Material (as I called it above) Why do the media keep running stories saying suits are back? Because PR firms tell them to. This is what I was talking about, perhaps we have differing nomenclature due to differing countries of origin or somesuch but it's the same thing; "news" sourced from preprepared press releases issued by vested interests - either advertisers and|or PR think tanks, etc. Either way it's "free" professionally prepared copy that costs nothing in paid reporter time and sometimes comes with a carrot (paid advertisement inches), sometimes with a stick (we're thinking of withdrawing | changing contracts, but we have this copy we'd like to see run).