@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:
@equalityAlec ("Alec Karakatsanis") replied to a tweet by @equalityAlec:
I cannot stress this enough: when you see articles like this, ask yourself: Why is this news? How did it get to the reporters? What is the goal of the article? How did they choose which voices to quote and which to ignore? Who benefits?
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@equalityAlec ("Alec Karakatsanis") wrote:
This is a thread about how journalists decide what is “news” and what isn’t. Anyone shaping the news and anyone consuming the news should understand who decides what counts as news, how they decide it, and what determines what they say about it. Here, I ask a few questions: