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This garbage is what's wrong with blog news sites, a complete lack of journalistic integrity. While I didn't check them all, every supposed example I looked at

This garbage is what's wrong with blog news sites, a complete lack of journalistic integrity. While I didn't check them all, every supposed example I looked at was a legitimate user and not a corporate shill. Ryan Holiday could have easily confirmed this as well (and may have) but instead chose to post them and insinuate less than honest intentions by the post authors. While corporate shilling does happen on Reddit (and other news sites such as HN) it's not as common as the article implies. If it was he could have at least found some real examples. Holiday should stick to what he's good at, marketing, and leave journalism to actual journalists.

hippobravo 14y ago
"This garbage is what's wrong with blog news sites, a complete lack of journalistic integrity." Newspapers really aren't much better, they're mainly better at appearing to have integrity. The only real benefit of most newspapers is that the lack of integrity is somewhat consistent according to a particular slant of the paper. So you can expect The New Yorker to lack their integrity in a fairly consistent way, whereas Washington Post lacks integrity in a different but consistent way. Reddit's curation is biased toward lowest common denominator dopamine shots that are provided in as little as time as is possible after clicking the "hit me" link.
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