fuck Newsweek and fuck The Daily Mail, please, please stop giving those RW shitrags exposure and clicks

[Celerity]

So bloody sick of them being posted left, right, and centre here.

Newsweek Embraces the Anti-Democracy Hard Right

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218334749

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-mail/

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1. Newsweek is a sensationalist tabloid

They target both sides of the spectrum -- by design -- with similar sensationalist language. Overall, they're more in line with right-center, as opposed to the Daily Mail's hard-right.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/newsweek/

That doesn't make them legitimate, of course. It's still sensationalist nonsense.

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4. that MAGAt git Josh Hammer of Newsweek banks on getting leftish and centre to centre right eyes on that rag

and then hopefully (for him and the other RW rotters there) gets them reading the RW bilge.

It is a chumming the water disinfo op for the christofashies and the white nationalist sets.

[Emrys]

2. "'My year ripping off the web for the Daily Mail', by ex-employee"

Journalist tells of doing a ‘mindless job’ at the Mail’s New York office

A man who claims to be a former Daily Mail employee has written a scathing piece for Gawker about working for its New York digital word factory, My year ripping off the web with the Daily Mail Online.

James King writes: “The Mail’s editorial model depends on little more than dishonesty, theft of copyrighted material and sensationalism so absurd that it crosses into fabrication.” (See Mail’s response disputing this here).
...
King, who says he worked in the Mail’s New York newsroom from May 2013 until July 2014 as one of its “news writers”, writes:

“In a little more than a year of working in the Mail’s New York newsroom, I saw basic journalism standards and ethics casually and routinely ignored. I saw other publications’ work lifted wholesale.

I watched editors at the most highly trafficked English-language online newspaper in the world publish information they knew to be inaccurate”.

He describes a production process in which writers were assigned “stories” taken from other publications “and essentially told to rewrite them” with clickbait headlines. Links and/or attribution to the original were placed “three or four paragraphs in”.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2015/mar/05/my-year-ripping-off-the-web-for-the-daily-mail-by-ex-employee

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3. Wasn't Newsweek actually legit for a long time?

They had to go to the dark side.

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5. that was long ago, then they went zombie mag model, almost folded, were bought out by a RWer and others,

the RWer sold off, it had a brief recovery, but then Josh Hammer came in, and here we are, with it using a 'bait normies in with supposed two-siderism, (the old 'fair and balanced' bullshit), and then hopefully get them to read the hard RW shit' model.

[happybird]

6. Thank you

I gave up a long while ago telling folks The Daily Mail isn’t a credible source. If an article says something they want it to, they’ll post it. Confirmation bias is alive and well here on DU… but no one wants to hear that either.

Love your posts by the way, especially the architecture articles.

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7. thanks!

[Flatrat]

8. Ditto for all the twitter links

Why put money in Eloon's pockets?

X is a cesspool of racists, fascists and bots.

[Celerity]

11. A bit chalk and cheese, as X is platform that anyone can post to, versus websites/papers. There are still

a vast amount of anti-RW, pro Democratic voices on X, including most of the major current and ex elected Democratic members of state and federal governments.

[oasis]

9. They're on my eternal shit list.

[littlemissmartypants]

10. ❤️