Newsweek and HuffPo do it all the time. Not reddit, necessarily but write entire stories just recounting social media reaction. Entire "articles" that are really just a series of twitter posts.....and I agree, it's not journalism. How does one even have a job just cut-and-pasting from social media to what used to be journalistic outlets? President Camacho, comin' in hot.
It's quote harvesting. When the journalist desperately wants to say something, but don't want to get in trouble, they find a twitter post that says the same thing they wanted to say ...
Buzzfeed used to do this, I remember reading this article about some dumb opinion that was backed up by four tweets, when I went to twitter to search those were basically the only four negative tweets about the situation.
tangential trend that's bugging me: ads now are modeling themselves after (and presumably using) social-media "influencer" posts. It's a race to the bottom out there. "Breaking up is hard so I let experian do it for me...".
It'd be nice to see reporting on wtf is going on at City Hall and the County Board of Supervisors, instead of waiting for a tape to leak or a DOJ indictment to find out.
Exactly! They sidelined their LA coverage and started trying to be NYT or WSJ. No one is reading LA Times for in-depth coverage of international or even national level news.
LOL, they can’t even find real people for fearmongering about Covid anymore; they have to resort to Reddit anecdotes from one of the the most antisocial-basement-dweller-filled subreddits out there. Better shut down the schools and restaurants and bring back masks again!
This is how it is when a billionaire with no journalism experience buys a newspaper, moves it away from the historic city center and to a beach town where he owns property, sheds most of the legacy staff and flails around, unwilling to simply hire a good publisher and get out of their way. The news is being made by the people now, and occasionally reporters glom onto our ideas. It's pathetic.
I’m always suspicious of posts like “My first trip to LA - what should I do?/where should I eat?” etc. I assume it’s someone who is writing an article.
Where have you been at the past 6 years? Real journalism has been dead for a while now. These days, a couple of twitter screenshots, along with whatever narrative they want to push passes off as journalism.
I understand what you’re saying. But it doesn’t seem that different from stopping people on the street and asking them to comment on whatever the story is about. Yeah it’s a lazy way to get public comments (browsing Reddit) but I think it’s still journalism.
The best is redditception. A reddit comment about a reddit post about a news article that's about a reddit post about a reddit comment...
We must go deeper, we need an LA Times article about this post.
Must create a LA Reddit newspaper. LA *R*imes
Newsweek and HuffPo do it all the time. Not reddit, necessarily but write entire stories just recounting social media reaction. Entire "articles" that are really just a series of twitter posts.....and I agree, it's not journalism. How does one even have a job just cut-and-pasting from social media to what used to be journalistic outlets? President Camacho, comin' in hot.
It's quote harvesting. When the journalist desperately wants to say something, but don't want to get in trouble, they find a twitter post that says the same thing they wanted to say ...
Buzzfeed used to do this, I remember reading this article about some dumb opinion that was backed up by four tweets, when I went to twitter to search those were basically the only four negative tweets about the situation.
Yep. Just lazy, IMO. Between AI and this shit, the media is shirking its duty.
tangential trend that's bugging me: ads now are modeling themselves after (and presumably using) social-media "influencer" posts. It's a race to the bottom out there. "Breaking up is hard so I let experian do it for me...".
Those are free news sources though. You expect higher quality journalism when you have to pay for it.
Is there anything LESS funny that HuffPo’s “this weeks funniest tweets by woman”!
LA times has gone severely downhill and completely given up on real organic journalism. Cancelled my subscription long ago.
It'd be nice to see reporting on wtf is going on at City Hall and the County Board of Supervisors, instead of waiting for a tape to leak or a DOJ indictment to find out.
Exactly! They sidelined their LA coverage and started trying to be NYT or WSJ. No one is reading LA Times for in-depth coverage of international or even national level news.
Without context this post isn't serving a very compelling point
Link to the article?
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-07-08/playing-covid-roulette-some-infected-by-flirt-variants-report-their-most-unpleasant-symptoms-yet
Ok that’s legit bad
LOL, they can’t even find real people for fearmongering about Covid anymore; they have to resort to Reddit anecdotes from one of the the most antisocial-basement-dweller-filled subreddits out there. Better shut down the schools and restaurants and bring back masks again!
They’ve been doing the same shit with Twitter for 20 years now. Someone says something on social media and the media spins it into a story.
Did they quote me? I wanna be in the newspaper.
This is how it is when a billionaire with no journalism experience buys a newspaper, moves it away from the historic city center and to a beach town where he owns property, sheds most of the legacy staff and flails around, unwilling to simply hire a good publisher and get out of their way. The news is being made by the people now, and occasionally reporters glom onto our ideas. It's pathetic.
Ñooooooo. Could you link the article?
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-07-08/playing-covid-roulette-some-infected-by-flirt-variants-report-their-most-unpleasant-symptoms-yet
I’m always suspicious of posts like “My first trip to LA - what should I do?/where should I eat?” etc. I assume it’s someone who is writing an article.
Where have you been at the past 6 years? Real journalism has been dead for a while now. These days, a couple of twitter screenshots, along with whatever narrative they want to push passes off as journalism.
L.A. Times is trash and has been for years. Check that…all media is trash.
And you paid for the privilege.
That I did. I guess that’s why I care.
Thanks for supporting local journalism. You too can help in its creation by posting to an anonymous web board.
*You* don't need the news to read the Internet to you, but my dad does, and I'm sure plenty of other readers do, too.
They should be dealing in original sources.
I understand what you’re saying. But it doesn’t seem that different from stopping people on the street and asking them to comment on whatever the story is about. Yeah it’s a lazy way to get public comments (browsing Reddit) but I think it’s still journalism.
Original sources are indispensable for journalism.