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the Wall Street Journal has been reduced to reprinting tweets as news

Why 2024? I've already seen this happening for the last few years, where the established press takes original content/reporting/etc. from online sources (blogs/etc.) with scant attribution.

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I particularly "love" [1] articles where they take screenshots of a bunch of tweets, and present them with interspersed commentary, rather than actually writing a coherent narrative. Guess it makes it easier to recruit "journalists" when you don't need to worry about whether most of them finished high-school.

[1] for certain values of "love"

I often enjoy these kind of articles, especially when the interpolated comments give me information and ways to look at things I did not previously have.

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