https://www.google.com/amp/s/time.com/longform/african-slave-trade/%3Famp=true
Here’s an article from time talking about the modern slave trade in Africa
This is a lazy, bullshit criticism because it starts with the assumption that they don’t ever talking about something just because they aren’t talking about it now.
https://time.com/longform/african-slave-trade/
Fixed your link.
They report on that because that’s what their readers care about. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
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I didn’t state that they couldn’t do both. I stated that their readership didn’t necessarily want both.
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Buzzfeed used to do exactly this - they used the revenue from the entertainment/clickbait articles to fund their division that focused on real news reporting. They even won a Pulitzer prize. They shut it down this year due to budget cuts though.
I’ll hate both, thanks.
Except they also actively silence news people want to hear in the name of politically ideaology
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I get what you’re saying but why the fuck does what Selena Gomez do with her IG count as news?
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Nothing I follow or care about compares to a celebrity changing their IG to private, no. It’s just fucking stupid and continues to play into the very unhealthy celebrity worship problem in the US.
I definitely want Linus Tech Tips to cover human trafficking.
I’ve seen more internet outrage directed at LTT than at trafficking.
I mean… who am I supposed to @ in my anti-trafficking Xceretions?
Do people still not realize that high school gossip isn’t journalism? So it’s rather stupid for a news publication to pass off such crap as news.
As long as the lights cost money to keep on, they have to go where the readers are, for better or worse. I don’t get mad at my mirror for the person in it.
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If you don’t like what private entities are publishing, you can always just start your own and only publish the things you like. They can’t even stop you, they have to just let you do it!
Do you use this response when someone has a bad review for a restaurant or say hotel? “Oh, you didn’t like the place you stayed at? Well next vacation you should build your own hotel and stay there.” Or how about if I go to a comedy show and the comedian isn’t funny? Should I just stay home and tell jokes to myself?
If you market yourself or product as something, and you don’t produce what is expected, people can and will complain. I would be equally disappointed if All Recipes magazine started putting out stock tips. Unless of course it was for chicken stock.
Selena Gomez is clearly involved in the Libyan slave trade
This always disgusts me. In the words of the great Lupe Fiasco
- dude is dating so and so, blabbering about such and such. And that ain’t jersey shore, homie that’s the news! And these are the same people supposedly telling us the truth
Prophetic
coomer just updated…
the real fool is the one who expected the media to care about the truths and real troubles of the world, in my eyes
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just because a news source does make an article on it, it doesn’t mean they promote it as much as they promote something else on their website, they make such articles to cover their backs if people make points regarding it
