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> The quality of the news is decreasing to Facebook/reddit levels

News doesn’t try to be objective anymore. Nowadays almost all tv hosts show their bias outright, even though they might invite people from the other side.

It’s sometimes like watching a daytime talk show. I just started ignoring anything news related lately on YouTube and reddit, and I can feel my negativity decreasing.

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Many of the article titles on Bloomberg etc seem to have turned into clickbait in the last few years. I suppose that’s what works for driving clicks or maybe I have just wised up to it as I grew older.

I remember a 10th or 11th grade English class (US public school) where they brought in a guest journalist. She basically told the class that readers would rather read about the story of a family who went through a tornado rather than stats about how fewer people are dying from tornados... so I suppose things haven’t really changed.

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