cgyvbunji
10 hours ago
Have you guys not figured out yet that the media justs runs random headlines with whatever they got paid to plug with a generation tacked onto it to sell more stuff by creating FOMO
"<Generation we want to sell more stuff to> has rediscovered the joy of <thing we want to sell more of>"
It's possible many such articles are actually truly random and they just add generations to them because it increases engagement, which would be somehow even more sad.
Either way they are definitely not legitimate and you can safely ignore almost any headline with a generation in it.
glimshe
9 hours ago
I'd go one step further and say that you can safely ignore most The Economist articles.
paulpauper
9 hours ago
The Economist has gone much more mainstream. It used to be more technical
sublinear
4 hours ago
???
Ads have always been like this. If you're at the point where you're getting upset about ads pretending to be something else, you're not actually upset at the ad.
lcnPylGDnU4H9OF
21 minutes ago
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paulpauper
9 hours ago
It's as if The Atlantic, NYTs, Washington Post, FT, Economist etc. all regurgitate the same headlines/themes based on what is trendy e.g. "is Ai a bubble?" The media acts as a single entity that is a mirror of an intelligentsia elite. Ordinary people do not care that much about movie attendance, the demise of movie rental stores, or if AI is a bubble.
andsoitis
8 hours ago
> The Atlantic, NYTs, Washington Post, FT, Economist etc. all regurgitate the same headlines/themes based on what is trendy
what do you expect news outlets to do? make up stories? report on something uninteresting? should they report on something they think will never be "trendy"?
there's an infinite number of stories they COULD report on, so they need a prioritization scheme to choose what. I would expect sizable overlap across the media outlets you list, but much less (though non-zero) with a news outlet like The Hollywood Reporter.
One thing I DO wish for is that they are better at reporting "foreign" news. Now that would be cool.