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minus-squareAedis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·2 days agoSurely BBC has nothing more important to report on if it’s doing this. Right?
minus-squareBananaTrifleViolin@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day agoNews isn’t a zero sum game. Like, I don’t think the White House correspondent or the middle east desk was working on this particular story.
minus-squareAedis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 day agoTrue, but Japan coining a term like “it was a really hot day” is not really newsworthy is it?
minus-squareathatet@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 day agoNot especially, no. But it is a good way to start talking about climate change, which is mainly what the article is actually about.
minus-squarebaines@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agowe’ve talked the existence of climate change to death until we start seeing hard hitting accusatory pieces aimed at the actual major players I’m not really interested another useless puff piece sanity-washing our collapse
Surely BBC has nothing more important to report on if it’s doing this. Right?
News isn’t a zero sum game. Like, I don’t think the White House correspondent or the middle east desk was working on this particular story.
True, but Japan coining a term like “it was a really hot day” is not really newsworthy is it?
Not especially, no. But it is a good way to start talking about climate change, which is mainly what the article is actually about.
we’ve talked the existence of climate change to death
until we start seeing hard hitting accusatory pieces aimed at the actual major players I’m not really interested
another useless puff piece sanity-washing our collapse