Re:Japanese aquarium urges public to video-chat with eels
by montebicyclelo on Saturday May 02, 2020 @02:41AM
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I suspect there is motivation for a news organisation not to send users away from their website.
Re:Japanese aquarium urges public to video-chat with eels
by ekianjo on Saturday May 02, 2020 @02:51AM
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Probably because content outside of news websites is a lot more worth a read.
Re:Japanese aquarium urges public to video-chat with eels
by remarkEon on Saturday May 02, 2020 @04:51AM
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And often, but not always, actually contradicts the headline and/or the content of the "news" article itself.
Re:Japanese aquarium urges public to video-chat with eels
by som33 on Saturday May 02, 2020 @06:47AM
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>This is my biggest pet peeve with news in general. Why does a high school paper have more rigor in terms of citations than the average post from a major news organization?
Because news is not meant to inform, it's meant to indoctrinate and keep you passively under the thumb of the rich.
https://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Econo...
>It makes digesting political news all but impossible.
The question is do you know the upper classes know your brain doesn't see the world as it is, you can be told the facts and not reason to the right conclusion?
Re:Japanese aquarium urges public to video-chat with eels
by specialist on Saturday May 02, 2020 @12:35PM
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One reason I heard, but have not verified, is that their content managements systems don't support links.
Pathetic, right?
How in the world can a majority of major news organizations not overcome the hurdle of... adding links to what they're covering..?
It makes digesting political news all but impossible.