Comment on Elizabeth Warren slammed for wanting to ‘break up Apple’s smartphone monopoly’

ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I quite like it because you can spot shitty journalism from a mile away and not click the link

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  • takeda@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But you just did…

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    • TheMinions@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I know this may be surprising, but sometimes I just read the title and look at the comments.

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      • k_rol@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Nice! There are at least two of us!

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    • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Takeda SLAMMED for presumptuous statement

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    • Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Image

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• ramirezmike@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I studied news journalism in college and they kinda hammered in that in news journalism it’s more important to communicate information consistently and to target a wide audience than it is to make “good writing.”

  There are style guides you have to follow and words like “slammed” end up getting used a lot despite not quite being accurate because they’re words that are used a lot.

  The other thing is that usually the person writing the headlines isn’t the journalist… and sometimes they do a lot of versions of the same headline and when people click more because of the word slammed it ends up sticking.

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  • theluddite@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Your comment perfectly encapsulates one of the central contradictions in modern journalism. You explain the style guide, and the need to communicate information in a consistent way, but then explain that the style guide is itself guided by business interests, not by some search for truth, clarity, or meaning.

    I’ve been a long time reader of FAIR.org and i highly recommend them to anyone in this thread who can tell that something is up with journalism but has never done a dive into what exactly it is. Modern journalism has a very clear ideology (in the sorta zizek sense, not claiming that the journalists do it nefariously). Once you learn to see it, it’s everywhere

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Boston Herald Slammed On Lemmy By ChihuahuaOfDoom For Its Verbal Tone

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• slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Angry reader slammed article due to a word in its title - you might surprised to find out which

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• Entropywins@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Slammed…

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• doublejay1999@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  the journalist version*thersaurus hyperbolus * is a much lighter animal.

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• RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “waffle stomped”

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