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Lots of things about news consumption and production make me angry from time to time, but the "I'm going to wave my hand and casually dismiss 'the internet'" move is a pretty big catch-all guaranteed to do it every time.
In fact MOST news sites and the people who work at them learned long ago that twitter outrage is a pretty crappy measure of traffic, and chasing it on its own merits is a dumb and exhausting waste of time that doesn't even translate to pageviews or engagement or anything else.
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