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Traditional Journalism is Overrated in The Current Age. (programming.dev)
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Right now, 50%-70% percent of traditional news is an article that paraphrase what a source links says.

Simply pointing me to the source link is more than enough for me to get the info.

The weirdest type of articles, are those that announce new products, The product is not available yet, so what does news websites do is that they paraphrase the press release. Matter of fact, a lot of times you would go to the product page only to find that they used a news service to publish their press release (I see it happen most of the times on TechCrunch)

I think I clarified my idea here, it's not worth violating my privacy to read a news that can be read ad and tracker free on the source website.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

That's not what traditional journalism is though, you're just describing modern "news" websites