When thousands of subreddits went dark in protest, it exposed the tension at the core of Reddit. Is the web’s most reliably human forum a gold mine for investors, or an old-fashioned dumpster fire?
Not only a late addition, but purposefully not clarified or explicitly stated at the beginning, or even at the end, of the article. This is like fine print, tucked into the content of the article so that you have to read the entire piece to get that information. Even then, if you are in the midst of the article you might not even consider how it impacts the framing. They also use distancing language there to avoid as much as possible connecting themselves to ownership.
Like, could you imagine this article ending on a ‘dont touch this dumpster fire of a stock’ line? Conde nast would not allow that.
The article was so glowing at the end it almost swayed me until that realization
Yup. Thats the point if these things, and they’re unfortunately good at it
Its not new, either. It’s the reason they acquired these news orgs. It’s just like the hedge fund managers shorting GameStop. It’s one of the frequent and common and definitely-should-be-illegal plays in the shit money game our economy has become.
Not only a late addition, but purposefully not clarified or explicitly stated at the beginning, or even at the end, of the article. This is like fine print, tucked into the content of the article so that you have to read the entire piece to get that information. Even then, if you are in the midst of the article you might not even consider how it impacts the framing. They also use distancing language there to avoid as much as possible connecting themselves to ownership.
Like, could you imagine this article ending on a ‘dont touch this dumpster fire of a stock’ line? Conde nast would not allow that.
The article was so glowing at the end it almost swayed me until that realization
Quick, how do we short it?
Yup. Thats the point if these things, and they’re unfortunately good at it
Its not new, either. It’s the reason they acquired these news orgs. It’s just like the hedge fund managers shorting GameStop. It’s one of the frequent and common and definitely-should-be-illegal plays in the shit money game our economy has become.