• Krudler@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Please allow me to have this mini rant, I’m not attacking op, because it’s an informative article.

    I just cannot fucking stand it when an article needs to tell me when things are jaw-dropping, stunning, shocking, mind bending. Fuck off with this bullshit, report the facts to me, let me decide how I feel about things. None of this is shocking or jaw dropping or unexpected, to anybody reasonably following affairs.

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        2 hours ago

        I agree. So much is just talking about what’s being talked about and who’s saying it. I’m old… so I’m not so naive to think it ever wasn’t this way. But I definitely noticed a trend starting about 15 years ago… A precipitous drop in investigative journalism, and news cycle workers leaning on content from social media for their content.

        I will give a bit more credit to the posted article. At least it presented information and facts. Overall though I didn’t feel like it gave the audience much credit. Also felt like they wanted to pad it with dead-horse topics like alcohol/travel news-memes instead of giving a broader overview, or wider scope of areas impacted/advantaged. This article wouldn’t have passed 25 years ago, how sad that its among the better I’ve seen recently… sad face.