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Between aggregation and digital competition for the lowest hanging clicks, what might be of interest to a gossip site or a news org local to the crime instead bounces around creating a digital footprint far larger than anything about it deserves.
The line between "well it's trending" and "but do we need to spend time on this?" is a squishy one and I am ALL IN FAVOR of publishing rather than not in most cases. but to me this is a pretty clear case of, well, it's ok to pass. And i'm having a hard time seeing the other side.
But I only got there after clicking, because of course i clicked too. So.
(not to completely pivot away from my soapbox here, but there was far more important mighty ducks news in the cycle this week https://sports.yahoo.com/emilio-estevez-to-return-as-coach-gordon-bombay-in-mighty-ducks-reboot-234230561.html …)
Anyway. It's fine. Gossip sites are gonna do what they do. It's when what are supposed to be more "serious" news sites started to pick it up that I began to despair.
what happens when mainstream 'serious' sites get in on the action is that it extends the cycle, let alone the reach, of any given story. So something is suddenly EVERYWHERE, which means sites that didn't cover it may feel like they should after all because, well, it's everywhere.
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