This isn’t a “this is a very important and underdiscussed topic” thread, just a conversational thread of things I’ve noticed about treatment of certain news stories over the past two days, while writing about what the BBC’s future should be, so thinking about the media.
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But the biggest thing I noticed was how unusable the Independent/New Statesman websites are: WAPO put two whole pages of “accept our terms” bunf before you hit your link, but that left me calm cos the site works, unlike jumping pages & ads that load slowly while text disappears.
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Oh yeah that seemed to come out of nowhere today but it has been v hard to find useful context for it
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Yeah, it’s worrying because it means if you want to find more context, Wikipedia will likely become your go to if Google’s deliberately unhelpful, but then on politics, whoever wins the moderation war on that page will have a huge impact.
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