#real reporting

[indizombie]

A lot of what passes for coverage of agriculture is information from the state and central ministers. Or propaganda puffs of agribusiness companies. Not real reporting on farmers or farming.

P Sainath, 'Everybody Loves a Good Drought'

[the-ninth-of-november-blog]

Clickbait Rots Your Teeth

The Washington Post recently reported a story headlined Whom to trust when it comes to health-care reform? Trump supporters put their faith in him. It laid out a fairly bleak picture, with a few especially dispiriting anecdotes of self-decieved DT supporters. Raw Story (a liberal-leaning outlet, quite honest despite strong bias) quickly re-reported the story with a lot of paraphrasing, a link to the original, and a new headline:

Trump supporter credits Trumpcare — which hasn’t taken effect — for dramatically lower health costs

This is all fairly standard, of course, but bear with me.

Folks, one foolish DT supporter is not worth our focus. That’s why the Post used the same interview as support, rather than putting it in the headline. Raw Story milks the attention of the Resistance (with a sideline in outraged conservatives) for clicks. And they do it based on someone else's original reporting and, in this case, one anecdote (Raw Story: real news that isn't really news).

Clickbait is designed to distract and provoke; and it works. Heck, it worked on me. However satisfying, it generally serves no one but the site’s owners. And about that….

The meat of the story is all in the original, and that's what deserves our attention. The advertising dollars they get from us will go further at the Post than at Raw Story. Raw Story's superiority is in maximizing our outrage endorphins and shortening our reading time by cutting content.

There will always be another confident moron on the other team with another crazy quote. We won't get far if we're genuinely rocked by such "revelations".

[bamm072]

[boundless-nocturnalsoujourn]

The Left Has a Bloodlust That Everyone Underestimates

The Left Has a Bloodlust That Everyone Underestimates

Conservatives have underestimated the left’s bloodlust. A Rutgers study found 56 percent of left-wing respondents said killing Trump would b

Andy Ngo with another stunning article

[boundless-nocturnalsoujourn]

I'd ask Paul Thomas to debate what he believes is propaganda being given to college age people, but I doubt he'd want to bring up any video of Charlie Kirk vs the professors and teachers convincing students men can become women

[ironxelly]

I want to say the world lost something valuable today, but I know this person would hate that kind of attention, especially given that 9,000 innocent people have already been murdered in Syria. What I will say is Marie Colvin lived more than most people could ever dream. I hope to one day be so deeply motivated towards fearlessness and ferocity.