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Originally Posted by Rain Man
I wistfully think about days when I could read a newspaper and not know the personal opinion of the person who wrote the article. Most news today is really amateurish and biased and uses poor grammar to boot, and I find it sad.
But then I wonder if it was always that way, other than the grammar. There were fewer media voices back when newspapers and the three major networks ran the show, which meant that there was more potential for powerful people to control the stories. We just may not have known it, because they were more subtle than the amateurs who are running the show today.
Democratization of the news is a good thing in theory, but in practice it means that we have to wade through a lot of bad journalism to find the truth. The Star at some point became stuff to wade through, rather than rely on.
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As soon as "clickbait" became a thing, it was bound to happen.
The internet pretty much killed the days where you could read a newspaper and just kinda chill out.
I wonder who fired the first shot in that war. Be interesting to read a history of online portals and who started the trend of being annoying for attention.