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I'm curious as to what their agenda is? I don't read it very often but I've not noticed anything overt. Could you give me any examples? I'd love to know more.

gdulli 8mo ago
"Agenda" has become code for "ideas I don't agree with", used by people who mistakenly believe it (politics) can be compartmentalized from other everyday topics and only trotted out at election time.
- crims0n 8mo ago
  I disagree. Agendas are real things. Just because they have one, doesn't mean it is inherently bad or even a disagreeable position... but some people just don't like to be "sold to", regardless of the topic.
  - jfengel 8mo ago
    I'm afraid both are true. And they often go hand in hand. Often, someone calling out an agenda is doing so to sell theirs. (See also "ideology", which is often treated as a synonym.)
- GlacierFox 8mo ago
  For some people perhaps. For me personally, I find some sites purposefully interject their 'agenda', either left or right into their journalism to the detriment of the piece. You're not going to a get a truely subjective view on things anywhere but some places are skewed to the point that you can't tell if vital information is being witheld or under reported.
crims0n 8mo ago
I got tired of reading about Trump and Elon.
- aqrit 8mo ago
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- beej71 8mo ago
  I'm also trying to understand. The agenda is to publish about Trump and Elon? Is that correct?
  - crims0n 8mo ago
    The agenda is to highlight when Trump and Elon blunder but ignore neutral or positive stories. Go to the front page right now and look at the articles, I see four mentioning Trump that are negatively charged. That isn't to say any one article is untrue, but hard to miss the curated pattern
    - bsimpson 8mo ago
      Honest question: has he done anything you think warrants good press? I too quickly grew tired of the constant doomerism in his first term, but this one seems to be unmitigatedly terrible.
      - cubefox 8mo ago
        Apart from articles by the two space reporters, any news about Musk tend to be biased towards being extremely negative.
        lukeschlather 8mo ago
        Aside from SpaceX, has there been any positive news about Musk lately?
        cubefox 8mo ago
        Would that excuse being extremely negative about anything that is much less than extremely negative?
aqrit 8mo ago
_Daily_ hit pieces on Elon Musk (or Musk companies), going for something like a decade. These have petered out somewhat since he left DOGE. But they started way back before he should have had that much notoriety.
- sidibe 8mo ago
  They were rightfully been calling out the grift at Tesla. On the SpaceX front they've been his biggest cheerleader (even dismissing other stories like the sexual harrassment)

gdulli 8mo ago

"Agenda" has become code for "ideas I don't agree with", used by people who mistakenly believe it (politics) can be compartmentalized from other everyday topics and only trotted out at election time.

crims0n 8mo ago
I disagree. Agendas are real things. Just because they have one, doesn't mean it is inherently bad or even a disagreeable position... but some people just don't like to be "sold to", regardless of the topic.
- jfengel 8mo ago
  I'm afraid both are true. And they often go hand in hand. Often, someone calling out an agenda is doing so to sell theirs. (See also "ideology", which is often treated as a synonym.)
GlacierFox 8mo ago
For some people perhaps. For me personally, I find some sites purposefully interject their 'agenda', either left or right into their journalism to the detriment of the piece. You're not going to a get a truely subjective view on things anywhere but some places are skewed to the point that you can't tell if vital information is being witheld or under reported.

crims0n 8mo ago

I got tired of reading about Trump and Elon.

aqrit 8mo ago
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beej71 8mo ago
I'm also trying to understand. The agenda is to publish about Trump and Elon? Is that correct?
- crims0n 8mo ago
  The agenda is to highlight when Trump and Elon blunder but ignore neutral or positive stories. Go to the front page right now and look at the articles, I see four mentioning Trump that are negatively charged. That isn't to say any one article is untrue, but hard to miss the curated pattern
  - bsimpson 8mo ago
    Honest question: has he done anything you think warrants good press? I too quickly grew tired of the constant doomerism in his first term, but this one seems to be unmitigatedly terrible.
    - cubefox 8mo ago
      Apart from articles by the two space reporters, any news about Musk tend to be biased towards being extremely negative.
      - lukeschlather 8mo ago
        Aside from SpaceX, has there been any positive news about Musk lately?
        cubefox 8mo ago
        Would that excuse being extremely negative about anything that is much less than extremely negative?

aqrit 8mo ago

_Daily_ hit pieces on Elon Musk (or Musk companies), going for something like a decade. These have petered out somewhat since he left DOGE. But they started way back before he should have had that much notoriety.

sidibe 8mo ago
They were rightfully been calling out the grift at Tesla. On the SpaceX front they've been his biggest cheerleader (even dismissing other stories like the sexual harrassment)