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Why So Much of the So-Called News You Read on the Internet is Trash
No offense to you know, actual trash
Note: My references are to secondhand sites referred to me through my Google News Feed and not to any stories or any writers on this platform
Every day I wake up and read. I typically start the morning off with a few chapters of my latest book of choice. Usually — regrettably — I end up browsing different sites, platforms and “news” outlets for stories that interest me. However, the offerings and options seem to be getting worse by the day.
The combination of over-saturation, our society’s obsession with political correctness and astounding ability to become offended over virtually anything, click-bait, and this generation’s definition of what qualifies as entertainment has completely ruined the state of internet news and reading.
Add in the lack of originality of so many writers and their insatiable desire to cater to their readers, rather than say what’s on their mind or what they actually think — and you are left with the dumpster fire that is the state of internet reading and writing.
I have been seeing essentially the same story, written over and over again by different writers, about Eminem’s daughter Hailie Mathers. What she was wearing at the beach that day or…
