Writer:“Hey Boss, I finished today’s news story.”
Boss: “Oh, this Reddit, is it a good source we should use in the future?”
Writer: “Oh, yeAahhH…there’s loads of things on here…WwoAh, look sOmeone’s argument with their ex, and they’re not getting the support they wanted in the comments section. Oh, tHerE’s someone’s cat knocking over a vase. NoOo other news station has any of this stuff! Someone’s got their week allll lined up for them… I’ll be soOon on my way to the top of I keep this up”
I’d honestly rather Fox focus on this than their usual conservative mouthbreathing.
The article literally includes marketing material for the restaurant chain and is dripping with political allusions.
The subject of the article is 39, a redditor, disagrees with his wife on how to raise their kids, thinks everything must be transactional, and that only the “worthy” deserve “treats”. The guy is literally a caricature of Fox’s audience and right wing ideology as a whole.
So, no. It’s not just a silly article. It’s still thoroughly infused with the same propaganda, and now we’ve been duped into spreading it as something innocent.
We left Reddit for Lemmy just so we could post Reddit stories that appear on Fox News, on Lemmy.
Wow. Good job, folks.
It is a good distraction. But heck, I wish I could just copy and paste quotes from social media as a ‘journalist’ for a large company like that. It’s all the article was with only a few sentences from the writer. They pretty frequently post ‘everyday-type’ stuff like this.
It’s ruff ya
Hmm, I suppose they might have language models built into their content management system to do that for them
There is not much stopping them. All the more reason to boycott. There are small trustworthy, non-politically-leaning news sources still worth using.
Sounds like a dream job if it wasn’t Fox or similar.
It’s probably done by unpaid interns anyway.