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Jacson6

(1,416 posts) Wed Jun 18, 2025, 09:19 PM Jun 18

The National TV News has gone Tik Tok Quality

Tonight there was a story about a woman that was convicted of drunk driving and a fight on an airplane.

Ridiculous.

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The National TV News has gone Tik Tok Quality (Original Post) Jacson6 Jun 18 OP

Stories to gossip about. A real story would be Ilsa Jun 18 #1

Could it be the audience? cachukis Jun 18 #2

No longer tune in. 5 minutes of headline and rest trash. LuckyLib Jun 18 #3

Popular magazines (like People for instance) musette_sf Jun 18 #4

Ilsa

(63,031 posts)

1. Stories to gossip about. A real story would be

Reply to Jacson6 (Original post)

Wed Jun 18, 2025, 09:33 PM

Jun 18

coverage of Olivia Gentile's exposé in The 19th (19thnews.org) about the difficulties arising in international marriages/ partnerships and parenting rights when the couples split.

https://19thnews.org/2025/06/hague-abduction-convention-mothers-children/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

cachukis

(3,322 posts)

2. Could it be the audience?

Reply to Jacson6 (Original post)

Wed Jun 18, 2025, 09:34 PM

Jun 18

LuckyLib

(7,005 posts)

3. No longer tune in. 5 minutes of headline and rest trash.

Reply to Jacson6 (Original post)

Wed Jun 18, 2025, 10:55 PM

Jun 18

musette_sf

(10,408 posts)

4. Popular magazines (like People for instance)

Reply to Jacson6 (Original post)

Wed Jun 18, 2025, 10:57 PM

Jun 18

now are almost all just “content” from Reddit.

And they use a lot of posts that were determined to be AI bot posts after they were scraped from Reddit.

Junk.

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