• tpihkal@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        They were local nobody’s showing up to do an underpaid job. I have personal connections with people that work this type of media coverage and I’m only glad that they enjoy their career over the things that they used to do that sometimes paid more.

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          10 months ago

          They were local nobody’s showing up to do an underpaid job.

          Right? It’s not like CNN’s sending out Anderson Cooper to cover this bozo’s little “campaign” event. It’s embarrassing how clueless people on social media are about how the media operates. It’d be hilarious except these same people come to every single damn comment section trying to criticize journalistic practices as if they’re experts rather than discussing the actual article.

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          10 months ago

          It is indeed much easier to object to statements no one made than to address someone’s comment.

          And it isn’t a conspiracy it is simply corpos doing what is best for their interests regardless of the damage caused. (see, that is called addressing what was stated rather than making things up and pretending.)

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            10 months ago

            You said that they were only covering this because they were desperate to make up a bogus headline.

            Please reread my comment and explain what yours has to do with it.

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              No, I did not. You assumed I intended that. The headline is written by entirely different people than the story, most often, and it shall reflect marketing’s instructions for click bait as passed down from the board that are only interested in making a “sporting event” style share because no one read the story. In fact the marketing dept. shall often trial multiple different click bait headlines and as per instructions from on high all shall be some variant on “how this is bad for Biden” or “Dems in disarray” or similar. And the editor shall edit the story to reduce length and attempt to support the predetermined PR headline’s premise. No conspiracy, just business standard in modern “journalism”.