Closely related to “people are upset about a thing” articles which just regurgitate quotes from random people on social media.

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rchaud 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The half-life of those articles is one week or less. There are no public figures who are the source of those headlines, thus there aren't any second-order effects occurring from other media outlets running with the headline to write their own "here's our 2 cents" article for clicks and views.

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dylan604 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Sometimes that is newsworthy though. For example, are people happy with ICE storm troopers running amok in their city and you're just the weird one not liking it, or are you one of many?

	▲	guessmyname 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Problem is, it is often just 1-2 posts on Twitter. Maybe 5… Heck! maybe 10, but that’s it. And it’s often people who are only superficially involved in the thing they are so expertly talking about. Sometimes it’s teenagers who just want to troll adults, especially knowing that their posts could appear in the news. Sometimes it’s adults who want to troll other adults for the LOLs or to fulfill a particular agenda. Sometimes it’s bots, actually, usually bots. Something the posts don’t even exist.
	▲	vntok 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		You can't infer anything about 3 choice Twitter quotes copied into an article, though.
	▲	pydry 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		No, but this stuff would magically stop being newsworthy if the DNC linked oligarchy couldnt or didnt want to use it as a stick to beat the RNC linked oligarchy. It's good that this ulterior motive exists but it's not something you can rely upon. Similarly there wouldnt have been a pushback on net neutrality if big tech didnt want it so desperately.
	▲	Paratoner 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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salemh 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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