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Comment by ipnon | Hacker News Reader

It's interesting to me how the mainstream news organizations are supposed to be synthesizing a constant stream of the latest and most important information, and yet breaking news happens faster on social media and the think pieces, such as this one, are basically rehashes of Reddit comments from 10 years ago.

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This is an evergreen topic which is a lot older than Reddit or FIRE.

To give an example, the book "How to retire young" from 1989 at https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781556231537 .

> basically rehashes of Reddit comments from 10 years ago

Because those comments were the first time in human history this was discussed?

Every medium curates and reproduces messages.

Couldnt have put it better myself, and most of the journalists are millenials now so frequently thats a real thing

This is the NYT Magazine though. Longer pieces about less-important issues are common.

Absurdly long pieces about utterly irrelevant pieces are the norm from the Grey Lady these days.

I remember my early research classes (~2001), when they were upheld by my teachers to be the creme de la creme of publications. My how times have changed.

Oh I literally suffer reading through these and trying to understand the conclusion... "When she strolled across her cozy room in her velveteen slippers, each step a deliberate promenade through a mosaic of chiaroscuro shadows..." - just get to the point already!!!

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