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A mini-thread on why journalism is dying.
Here's something that WSJ posted on Twaddle yesterday:
Absolutely, completely different context.
Clickbait headline for the Twaddle mob, reasonable headline once you get lured in outrage to the article.
Again, no newspaper should be aghast that they get stick with trickery like this.
@LiberalLibrarian WSJ is a Murdoch rag. You know, the same guy who owns Faux News which features Trucker Carlson?
@LiberalLibrarian jfc that's a yikes. Glad I tend to avoid the WSJ in favor of others
People don't want to pay decent wages for actual journalism - they want it all for free.
So we get this, instead, because ad sales will cover it.
Horrible, no? Especially after the events in California over the weekend.
This is the actual headline: