Just wanted to drop a quick message in to say thank you to those who put in the news articles here… I was getting frustrated with the poor journalism across different mainstream news and really appreciate your efforts summarising everything here.
I felt like just a stat for websites like BBC news clicking up views to then guide them on what news stories to focus on publishing, and what to not publish… First world censorship at its finest. At least now I can just read the content here.
The autotldr bot also saves a lot of time from having to read extra non-value text that journalists pump in to make stories longer.
I do wonder what happens if feddituk is shutting down, hopefully this community and these news articles continue… I’d hate to have to actually go to the BBC news site again 😳
Thank you to you and all those growing Lemmy 🙏 2024… the year of everyone migrating to Lemmy.
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 10 months ago
I don't quite understand what you are getting at here - could you unpack it a bit.
rayquetzalcoatl@feddit.uk 10 months ago
I think the gist is that OP felt like people visiting sites like BBC news were essentially providing their Marketing department with view counts, which they’d use to help guide them on what to report on or suppress, and feeding into censorship that way.
beefontoast@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s right!
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 10 months ago
Hmmm,
I would say that every media outlet looks at ratings, newspaper/magazine sales, click-throughs to see what kind of stories, images, etc are popular and drive readership to shape future coverage. That’s not really censorship in any meaningful way. I only post stuff in the Fediverse that I think people will be interested in. I don’t think that means I’m self-censoring