• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I think it’s just that a content creator, especially one with the ability to come off authentically, comes off as more trustworthy than a media corporation, even one well known for its trustworthiness.

    Part of me misses my childhood local paper. Especially the game we played in middle school of finding the spelling and grammar errors. Honestly though I do think we need to have a revival of subscribing to local newspapers

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      6 months ago

      My middle school social studies teacher used to give extra credit on things if we brought in a newspaper clipping with a spelling error circled. I didn’t understand until years later that getting us to read the paper was the goal, but it sure worked on me.

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      6 months ago

      the headline sounds fucking scary, but i wonder what the reality really is. i am in my fourties, i remember news being printed on the paper, and i understand the media world and what the difference is between trustworthy media and tabloid.

      still, lemmy is often times the first place where i see specific news, esp. regarding us politics (i am from eu) - but i choose links to reputable sources (which is not that hard, because lot of times the same info is linked 5 times from the different sources) and verify if needed.

      so “gets news from social networks” would sound more ominous than i think my reality is. i don’t have tiktok, so i have no idea what the reality is there.