Re:Some young people are buying houses with friends
by growlist on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @09:22AM
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> Is the BBC writing more clickbait headlines than ever? continue reading to find out more!
I notice this more and more, along with promotion of clearly trivial stories to the front page - is a banal and contrived tweetstorm about Trump/race/trans/gender/tax issues justifiably worth elevating above a story like Venezuela, or rampant knife crime, or any number of other inconvenient yet important stories about which the BBC chooses to avert its eyes?
I believe that much of what is motivating their current direction seems to be desperate fear of becoming irrelevant in a changing media landscape (an existential threat given that with falling engagement the license fee would eventually become untenable), hence their degeneration into a crumby buzzfeed simulacra. Another reliable institution subverted and going down the tubes, hey ho.
I notice this more and more, along with promotion of clearly trivial stories to the front page - is a banal and contrived tweetstorm about Trump/race/trans/gender/tax issues justifiably worth elevating above a story like Venezuela, or rampant knife crime, or any number of other inconvenient yet important stories about which the BBC chooses to avert its eyes?
I believe that much of what is motivating their current direction seems to be desperate fear of becoming irrelevant in a changing media landscape (an existential threat given that with falling engagement the license fee would eventually become untenable), hence their degeneration into a crumby buzzfeed simulacra. Another reliable institution subverted and going down the tubes, hey ho.