• Ook the Librarian@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    We should consider it a faux pas for a news organization to report on the punditry of other news org that is “two steps below it”.

    If nbcnews wants to cover something “conservatives” are saying, they shouldn’t reach deep. They should consider the twitter account End Wokeness to be so far beneath it that reporting on it directly should feel dirty.

    Now if fox news or even newsmax picks it up, then maybe start attacking this nonsense. Right now it seems to the crazies that we are taking them seriously. Why else would NBC News cover it?

    • ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 months ago

      It would be like CNN reporting on our Lemmy posts. It doesn’t make sense to treat Twitter as if it’s the news. It’s how Trump had a stranglehold on the news cycle from a White House toilet. The news couldn’t stop reporting on his tweets.

      If I wanted to get my news from Twitter I would go to Twitter. I go to news organizations to hear real news, not stream of consciousness thoughts from public figures. I’m concerned how much actual news we’ve missed because news pundits are too busy checking social media to actually report on the news.

    • spujb@lemmy.cafe
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      9 months ago

      i’m seeing this more often recently and i appreciate people who identify it and call it out