HuffPost

[angrychair]

Is it me or does HuffPost’s website seem like most of the content is a re-posting of the exact same stories over and over again? I mean some of those stories were there 2 or more months ago...it’s almost worthless as a current news site. Don’t remember it being that way even a recent as a couple years ago.

[BannonsLiver]

1. Interesting

I haven’t noticed that but I will be looking for it now. What I have noticed is a bizarre shift toward painting Dems in impossible situations or as hopeless, hapless bumblers in a lot of their opinion content lately.

[angrychair]

3. I agree

But unless my browser is caching content (that’s a joke), I’m seeing a lot of the same stuff I saw 3 months ago.

I agree though. While I think news sources, no matter the format, are critical to free and informed electorate, I think news sources have become more profit-focused than fact-focused.
To your point: controversy and conflict sells. That’s why.

I will never forget a 2015 press conference by Sanders in a thumbnail screen in the corner of the larger screen of an empty podium where trump was supposed to speak, for 15 or more mins straight, simply because trump was going to speak at any minute.
They showed an empty podium for 15 mins straight on live TV! Not an actual live person speaking. That is when I first started worrying about the press and how much trouble we were in...

[Leith]

4. I Remember That, Too

It was outrageous and a sign of things to come.

[TheBlackAdder]

2. I've noticed that too. RawStory does the same thing.

[angrychair]

6. Consolidation

Another serious concern. News sources are heavily consolidated, so much so that we have a very limited pool of sources just verifying themselves with no actual checks or balances.

[Denzil_DC]

5. It's largely the economics of the site.

The stories that get clicks stick around or get re-drafted. Classic clickbait.

I stopped visiting it with any frequency a few years ago. I largely went there because I wanted to see the source of what was obsessing/exciting others in forums I visited at the time, but I gave up on it because it was more annoying than useful or entertaining, and it got so aggressively pop-up and ad-heavy that my browser locked up. I've not missed it. You'll usually keep abreast of what's going on politically much more reliably by checking out LBN and decent Twitter feeds.

[angrychair]

7. I agree...

Was just to give it a chance but it’s just useless as a news source.