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[–] 60 points 1 year ago (1 child)

A Lemmy post about an article about a Reddit post. The internet feels more and more incestuous every day.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I responded to a question on Reddit that I am knowledgeable of to make an educated guess. Then, it turns out OP is a journalist and asked me if he could quote me. But I declined because even though I know the topic well enough, I am not an expert and don't have the credentials to show for. I mean, I could have allowed OP to quote me and feed my ego, but I don't want to sow misinformation if I am wrong. And besides, being quoted with my then strange username will make the article strange.

    Yeah, journalism is getting lazier and lazier.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I realized journalism was truly dead a few years back when I noticed that most news articles online are just a bunch of Twitter posts talking about the headline. I fantasize about writing a movie where Edward R. Murrow comes back from the dead as a demon and just goes around slaughtering lazy journalists, which forces other journalists to actually do their fucking jobs.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    just a bunch of Twitter posts talking about the headline

    Combine that with the dead internet theory and you've got yourself a corporate owned propaganda machine on all fronts

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