This is what bothers me about for-profit journalism, the fiduciary need drives it to clicks which drives it to sensationalism. Certainly there's a place for it, but I find my feed being filled with speculation utterly tiresome when I'd like just as much to know what's going on.
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"Speculation is not the function of journalism. It is what an anxious brain does, worrying about all the ways things could go wrong, sending the worrier into a panicked and angry state,” writes Noah Hawley:
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