Re:Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'
by gnz11 on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @07:59AM
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> they realized quality didn't matter as much as emotions and outrage and validating peoples own beliefs.
No, that’s not a new phenomenon. Tabloids and political rags filled that market well before the Internet. News organizations aren’t static entities, they come in a wide variety of flavors.
The primary reason is the click metrics, they realized quality didn't matter as much as emotions and outrage and validating peoples own beliefs.
It doesn't matter how much you pay for it when they will just invest more into those things. You can see this in gaming, the more people paid for Ubisoft games the more toxic transactions Ubisoft put into them.