Mark Sumner on Nostr: Within both kinds of news there was always a strong pull toward what was once called ...
Within both kinds of news there was always a strong pull toward what was once called “yellow journalism,” aka juicy gossip, tabloid news, and more recently clickbait. Reasonable news about reasonable people doing reasonable things has always been boring. It lacks the WTF factor. That grabs and holds attention. …
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