Rep. Jerry Nadler burst out into laughter Thursday when a legal group leader with close political ties to former President Donald Trump testified to complete ignorance on all matters.

      • MinorLaceration@lemmy.world
        24·
        9 months ago

        Seriously. When did all these slammed/rebuked/savaged/destroyed headlines start showing up? I don’t give a fuck what 3 random people on Twitter said about anyone.

          • MinorLaceration@lemmy.world
            8·
            9 months ago

            Interesting headline, but not exactly what I mean. I’ve just been really annoyed lately by headlines that use a very small group of people’s reactions and extrapolate them out to imply that the majority of a group or population think that way.

            Things like “X politician railed for X.” There’s nothing substantive in that statement. I want news, not journalists telling me the reactions of nobody I care about.

            • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
              6·
              9 months ago

              First step was when internet went mainstream and news papers had to compete with news online. Things got a lot more attention grabbing. Or at least more articles got clickbaity. Then came from social media, who loved to use emotions to drive engagement so you got a lot of articles with emotional attention grabbing language. Meanwhile there is a large wave of consolidation where small media companies are bought up by bigger ones, usually with political leanings, that then start pushing a message, an ideology held by a small group. All together you now have a small group spouting their opining everywhere with very attention grabbing emotional laden headlines.

            • SomeGuy69@lemmy.world
              4·
              9 months ago

              Because facts don’t matter anymore and news outlets noticed it’s easier to get clicks. If necessary, sock puppet the handful of enraged Twitter user yourself, boom story.

        • harderian729@lemmy.world
          72·
          9 months ago

          Since 2016 there has been a massive uptick in bullshit like this.

          It’s the next-generation learning what they should have learned a long time ago.

      • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
        12·
        9 months ago

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