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The slow death of Twitter is measured in disasters like the Baltimore bridge collapse (www.vox.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Twitter, now X, was once a useful site for breaking news. The Baltimore bridge collapse shows those days are long gone.

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[–] [email protected] 211 points 8 months ago (72 children)

It’s actually crazy how low the percentage of people under like… forty is now that actually gets their news direct from a news site. Seriously, i don’t know a single person from like 20-35 who actually just goes on the NPR or C-SPAN app or whatever.

It kind of sucks. So much news is just reading the headline and seeing a photo now. And I just feel like there’s something bad about being able to see a comment section on Twitter or Reddit or even Lemmy now on every news event. Makes for a lot more group think rather than just reading the news and going “huh”

[–] MonkCanatella 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I highly prefer getting my news from independent journalists/investigators. You think everyone reading the same news sites is going to be better for groupthink?!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

None of your independent journalists / investigators are independent.

[–] MonkCanatella 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Right, news corporations owned by oligarchs are for more independent. of course, how silly of me

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You’re going to have to tell me what oligarchs own NPR, C-span, and the associated press

[–] MonkCanatella -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I see, let's just all get our news from 3 sources. That'll definitely help with the groupthink

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think you might be an idiot my man.

[–] MonkCanatella -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wow you get backed into a corner and resort to middle school name calling. Like, maybe you need to get out of your comfort zone. Maybe you need to put on your big boy pants and accept that your original premise is incoherent

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago

No I stand by my statement lol

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