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Summarising a reddit discussion counts as news nowadays?
by twoslide 2mo ago
Summarising a reddit discussion counts as news nowadays?
- incognito124 2mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silly_season https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silly_season
- embedding-shape 2mo agoThe actual original dunk from that page is great enough to be reproduced here again verbatim: > during the months of autumn [...] Work is left to feebler hands. ... In those months the great oracle becomes —what at other times it is not—simply silly. In spring and early summer, the Times is often violent, unfair, fallacious, inconsistent, intentionally unmeaning, even positively blundering, but it is very seldom merely silly. ... In the dead of autumn, when the second and third rate hands are on, we sink from nonsense written with a purpose to nonsense written because the writer must write either nonsense or nothing. Sounds like "The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art" where this came from was a wonderful little venture. Is there anything like it today? Feels like "we sink from nonsense written with a purpose to nonsense written because the writer must write either nonsense or nothing" accurately describes HN sometimes :D
- cindyllm 2mo ago[dead]
- unclebucknasty 2mo agoWhat would really be crazy is if there were a platform on which people provided commentary about other people's commentary on other people's commentary.
- sva_ 2mo agoIt's turtles all the way down
- dgellow 2mo agoBeen the case for more than a decade
- dncornholio 2mo ago0 upvotes too