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thenewgreen · 3954 days ago · link · · parent · post: The New York Times' Most Popular Story of 2013 Was Not an Article
If you look at the direction sites like NPR and others are going, unfortunately what you find are a number of "lists" and also their take on meme-ish popular culture events. For example instead of reporting on Mily Crus and Robin Thicke their version would be to splash that same alluring image and essentially ask "what does this say about society?" -Well that sort of thing only fools us for so long before we realize that they're also just capitalizing on sensationalist pop news. -they do it often now. Maybe they always have and I'm just now noticing it.