Time magazine: “we don’t know how yet, but we’re gonna find a way to link the rise of fascism and avocado toast”

  • @treadful@lemmy.zip
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    1221 year ago

    The article is largely good quality but what even is this:

    “We couldn’t destroy the Taliban, but office work destroyed the Taliban,” said one Tiktoker, reviewing articles and quotes from the report.

    It doesn’t even name the person. Just cherry picked some random quip from social media and pasted it into the body.

    • El Barto
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      641 year ago

      I’ve been hating this since Twitter became a thing. I used to read BBC news articles for (seemingly) good quality reporting, and then they started quoting random twitter users. Like, who gives a fuck?

      • bedrooms
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        1 year ago

        Hell, there are even news articles only quoting Tweets.

        And TV shows only re-streaming viral YT videos. I imagine these people just watch YT the whole day and call it work.

        • El Barto
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          41 year ago

          Living the dream, if you ask me. Just don’t mix it with serious news. “New political coalition formed! Twitter user rear_beads commented: ‘lol’”

        • @ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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          One can view a show about humorous viral YouTube videos to be this generation’s America Funniest Home Videos.

          Edit: Fix grammar

        • @RGB3x3@lemmy.world
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          71 year ago

          Even worse when a “news” article is just embedding a bunch of Tweets from random people and calling it news.

    • BadlyDrawnRhino
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      291 year ago

      Editor: The article is great! All we need now is a quote from social media and we can publish.

      Journalist: We haven’t been able to find anything suitable, everyone thinks this story is satire.

      Editor: Then just post one yourself and then quote that! But don’t reference your name, that’ll be a dead giveaway.