• Schwim Dandy@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    They report on that because that’s what their readers care about. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.

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        1 year ago

        I didn’t state that they couldn’t do both. I stated that their readership didn’t necessarily want both.

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        1 year ago

        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.

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      Except they also actively silence news people want to hear in the name of politically ideaology