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Re:Garry Tan tech CEO and campaign donor wishes death upon S... by kvathupo on Sunday January 28, 2024 @12:13AM (#39162799)
As a Tupac fan and lover of print news, I think this article encapsulates what's wrong with modern media: the selective use of context to engender a political stance, from which outage is engendered

The problem isn't social media or long-form print news, but the 24-hour news cycle in my humble opinion. As we saw in the case of that shocking bombing of a Palestinian hospital, I've increasingly felt that once reputable media companies have prioritized returns (eyeballs) over news. Indeed, many of these paragraph long 24-hour updates reuse the same sentence structure I noticed.

Re:Garry Tan tech CEO and campaign donor wishes death upon S... by iosnoob on Sunday January 28, 2024 @12:38AM (#39162914)
It's mentioned in the article (reference to Tupac song)
Re:Garry Tan tech CEO and campaign donor wishes death upon S... by jballer on Sunday January 28, 2024 @01:16AM (#39163028)
It’s buried and incidental when it should be the lede.

Invoking an artistic expression of “I can’t find words strong enough to convey how much I loathe what you stand for” is very different from making a literal death wish.

Re:Garry Tan tech CEO and campaign donor wishes death upon S... by flir on Sunday January 28, 2024 @04:13AM (#39163810)
You'd strain yourself less if you went for "but he was drunk".

I see it's flagged, too. tbh, flagging Twitter drama's probably a good thing in general. I mean, he deleted and apologised.