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Many subreddits are simply themed containers of creative writing.

One really annoying trend I am seeing in some mainstream news publishing online is repackaging social media clips and "reporting" on them as if NewsWeek breaking a story, Reddit and TikTok seem to be the current darlings of this form of phone it in journalism.

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It makes it easy to play games with journalistic integrity if you have a beef with a local paper and want them to get egg on their face. Then again, this is not unique to the internet—only easier. It was a major plot point in the final season of The Wire.

Yeah, it's trash and you're almost always better off just reading the original story (if you haven't already, since it was probably on the front page of a major subreddit).

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