This shit is exactly why chancers like Trump suck all the oxygen out of the room for serious politics. People want salacious headlines, not solid policy.

[–] MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I kind of just hate the daily news cycle. The hourly news cycle on social media sites is even worse.

Trump says a bunch of awful things on a daily basis. His regime is a threat to democracy. No one voted for Elon. But we don't need an article for every little things he says or does. Trump was a nobody oddball candidate that no one liked, and then he got disproportionately more news coverage from both liberal and conservative outlets compared to any other presidential candidate in 2016, day after day. That may have been why he was elected.

News outlets are incentivized to do this thanks to the advertising model and moving to web-only. It's always so incendiary and tabloid-like. It's done so much damage to society. People are making it worse by repeatedly clicking and sharing stuff from the daily news cycle instead of, as OP said, better journalism. It's tricky, though, because the best journalism tends not to be behind a subscription model and not free, so how do you share it?

I read The Week now every Friday. I'm subscribed to the print magazine, but it's also available free on Libby for Americans. The Week isn't perfect; any weekly newspaper will do, though there's not many left. I try to avoid news every other day of the week. My mental health has improved a bit (as much as can be expected for a person living in America) and I find I'm capable of thinking more critically about what I read.

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 1 points 22 hours ago

i know they mean the articles in the Reddit posts (I think) but the fact that Reddit is so centralized like this rubs me the wrong way.

[–] Darkard@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

u/normalizevictory melts down over poor journalism

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 14 points 2 days ago

Yep. The lineup of the usual: newrepublic, dailybeast, commondreams, HuffPost, etc. They’re all like that, with headlines intended for the silo-ing crowd.

While they aren’t quite as bad as Breitbart, we’re basically Breitbart-ing ourselves over here. Silo-ing to the nth degree. This practice helped lose the 2024 election.

[–] HorreC@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I mean I think talking to humans is your first mistake, we dont write any of this.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Good journalism or large audience. You can only pick one.