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The Curmudgeon
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The day that journalism peaked Sept 23, 2016 13:57:49 GMT 2

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Post by The Curmudgeon on Sept 23, 2016 13:57:49 GMT 2

Journalism is a dying profession, now over-run by Wikipedia copy and paste hacks relying on clickbait bullshit to fund their pages.

But it wasn't always like this. There were once REAL journalists, REAL newspapers, telling REAL stories.

Like this one. You might have to squint to read it, but it's worth it. How the fuck did this a) make the final copy and b) even get written in the first place?

www.thepoke.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/jubilee2-1.jpg

It's like someone had a stroke but wasn't allowed to go to the hospital until they'd finished.

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The day that journalism peaked Sept 23, 2016 20:00:19 GMT 2

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Post by trashcanman on Sept 23, 2016 20:00:19 GMT 2

For a while there, the writer was composing a decent rap. I've actually seen stuff like this in my local paper, where part of one story gets pasted into another. I also saw one where the writer used the same paragraph-length quote verbatim three times in a fairly short article. Editing is for losers.

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