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i'm torn between thinking she doesn't read anything herself, and therefore didn't know wsj is clickbait, or she does read it but can't tell

anon, i'm with you calling out someone's attitude, but calling wsj clickbait is just bizarre. wapo and nyt have that segment much better covered, half of wsj content is dull markets that you only wish someone could make fun and clickbaity.

ok but the other half is oped columns titled things like "Wokeness: Is It A Communist Insurgency On American Soil, Or Just A Fancy Term For Voter Fraud"

there are plenty of articles that aren't opeds in wsj that are done up in the same way as a fox "article," too

stuff like "biden's economy murders two-year-old in alabama by causing a tornado"

not to mention the articles, also not opeds, that exist for the sole purpose of shilling a product

and some of the other stuff is legitimately good investigative journalism on wagner group and corruption in venezuela. putting down the wsj as clickbait is such a weird take, irrespective of where you land on parthas mod being a namedropping idiot (they are one).

fascinating

i will continue to call it clickbait

buzzfeed has also done good journalism and that's never stopped anyone from calling them clickbait so what's your point

difference being the bread and butter of wsj not being clickbait?

i wouldn't even be able to tell you why i'm so hung up on this,other than as a daily news reader, guess it never struck me wsj would be viewed as clickbait in the US, but there you go

the ny post and fox news are often viewed as clickbait as well. hoping i can divert the surprise for you if someone says it elsewhere

i knew you guys hate fox cause of the deep republican roots, but i thought wsj and nytimes were widely regarded as your more serious paper

The New York Times publishes anti-Black and antisemitic editorials on the regular.

It’s not a viable news source anymore.

major media entities are all bought and paid for by people we hate

"you guys" being americans?

wsj was serious at one point (and other anon is correct that they still do real journalism, as does nyt), but both papers you named have gone downhill, wsj because it's owned by rupert murdoch and nyt because they wanted more money

unless you mixed up nyt and ny post in which case: the ny post has always been a tabloid pretending to be news

I can’t be the only one still shocked that Rupert Murdoch is still alive. Evil never dies, huh?

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the only people ive ever spoken to who think wsj is not a rag nowadays are non-americans and mostly because its an old name

>Buzzfeed
>good journalism

Anon are we reading the same buzzfeed

nayrt but buzzfeed has a news arm that does, indeed, do investigative journalism

ymmv on whether it was a good idea for them to try that when they were and will continue to be known for clickbait, including their news page, but amid the "what movies to watch when you're crying and alone this friday night"s and breathless pop star coverage there is indeed some serious reporting

buzzfeed won a pulitzer a couple years ago for reporting on the prisons in xinjiang.

guys we are never going to beat the "stuck in 2010" accusations like this

turns out you aren't

You know who had good journalism? Vice

why are you dickriding for a shitty rag newspaper

it's definitely the latter, this mod has yet to demonstrate any self awareness

she has severe mental health issues and they're showing

+1

it's starting to get kind of sad to watch this spiral honestly

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