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Extent of the Jam @extentofthejam.bsky.social

I think too the competition from clickbait publications has really hastened this. People mostly read opinion pieces and get angry now if a news article is written neutrally, even if it still implies the same thing that the whiner wants to see in print. Everything is either a shit tabloid now or…

aug 29, 2025, 5:22 pm • 1 0

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STEMthebleeding @stemthebleeding.bsky.social

We demanded news for free. The result is that instead of us paying authors, authors are paid by how much traffic they generate. Now we have sensationalism in the headline only for it to be contradicted 5 paragraphs down. We did this to ourselves.

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