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Re:No, Teen Suicide Isn’t Rising Because Life Got Objectivel... by jimbokun on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @06:52PM (#34990048)
It is repackaging the case being made that social media is the key driver for the startling increase in mental health problems.

And the evidence for that case seems to grow stronger by the day.

Beyond that, it’s simply good writing style to address the strong points of the argument you want to rebut, before rebutting it. You seem to be set on finding on something more nefarious than that going on here.

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Re:No, Teen Suicide Isn’t Rising Because Life Got Objectivel... by braingenious on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @07:22PM (#34990304)
“Writing flashy headlines for less than groundbreaking content” isn’t a nefarious conspiracy, it’s just a hallmark of kind of mediocre media. It’s not some big conspiracy, it’s just boring.

If I were to write an article about how I think [person a] could possibly be right or wrong about [topic x] for understandably valid reasons in either direction, I wouldn’t title it “No, [opinion of person a on topic x] is wrong” because that would be stupid.

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