This new year, all your failed resolutions will be forgiven if you just stop rage boosting outrage farm articles from the NYT and their brethren, please I am begging you, the clicks and shared anger none of them are worth any of it
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I gave up reading national news groups like the WaPo or NYT after the election and it was the best decision I made last year (previous years best decision was adopting a baby.)
not for us trans people, thanks, the NYT is an existential threat and has partially succeeded in turning liberals against us. (they always were against us, but were too cowardly to say so in public)
As a trans person I'm pretty sure I can happily live the rest of my life without seeing even one more NYT ragebait stunt. Turns out giving myself ulcers on social media didn't help! Anyone! At all!
I can promise you that your quote dunk on the NYT is not challenging anything especially the NYT's notion of how easy it is to get free publicity with a headline
Pointing out bad information points out bad information. Telling people that a dog has a history of biting people can keep the teeth out of someone's leg.
Repeating lies makes them stronger, it’s how ‘the big lie’ really takes over. People truly believed that pet-eating nonsense, and voted as if were true
separate issue for me is that there are, still, a number of genuinely good pieces in the NYT and WaPo (I subscribe to neither, but people post them on my feed, sometimes I read when I can, and RS).
but "can you believe what Matt SilverChud said TODAY" is just more breathless "Trump said WHAT"
Amen to that! My resolution is to use the block to names of the columnists etc as these click baits arise, today being the first day to have to act on it!
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It is wonderful you offer both.
Bad information that goes unchallenged becomes "common wisdom".
separate issue for me is that there are, still, a number of genuinely good pieces in the NYT and WaPo (I subscribe to neither, but people post them on my feed, sometimes I read when I can, and RS).
but "can you believe what Matt SilverChud said TODAY" is just more breathless "Trump said WHAT"