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Why does EVERY article contain links to Twitter?
Seriously. Journalists, do something besides scroll Twitter!
Investigative journalism has just become scrolling social media online because nobody answers the phone or their door to give comments in person to the media. That's why I just post stupid, silly shit. I'm like that guy behind the "on the scene" reporter making faces and wrecking the shot.
I thought the Great Exodus from xitter was a matter of critical mass not yet being attained. Enough readers have to be elsewhere to get journalists elsewhere.
No, I think it's just lazy journalists not learning new tools like Bluesky.
The only news in that story was that someone tweeted something. That is lazy. They were successful in stealing the clicks from the actual reporter.
Here is the thing. As of last week, Elon marks news that makes Trump look bad as spam (see NPR’s coverage of the Arlington Cemetery debacle).
So now the news stories not marked as spam are the news stories that are “Elon Approved”.
Why are any self respecting journalists still on Twitter hoping to publish things that Elon deems not to be spam.