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Taliban Militants Fed Up With Office Culture, Ready to Quiet Quit (time.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Viking_Hippie to c/nottheonion

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Time magazine: "we don't know how yet, but we're gonna find a way to link the rise of fascism and avocado toast"

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[–] [email protected] 122 points 11 months ago (4 children)

The article is largely good quality but what even is this:

“We couldn’t destroy the Taliban, but office work destroyed the Taliban,” said one Tiktoker, reviewing articles and quotes from the report.

It doesn't even name the person. Just cherry picked some random quip from social media and pasted it into the body.

[–] elbarto777 64 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I've been hating this since Twitter became a thing. I used to read BBC news articles for (seemingly) good quality reporting, and then they started quoting random twitter users. Like, who gives a fuck?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Hell, there are even news articles only quoting Tweets.

And TV shows only re-streaming viral YT videos. I imagine these people just watch YT the whole day and call it work.

[–] elbarto777 4 points 11 months ago

Living the dream, if you ask me. Just don't mix it with serious news. "New political coalition formed! Twitter user rear_beads commented: 'lol'"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

One can view a show about humorous viral YouTube videos to be this generation's America Funniest Home Videos.

Edit: Fix grammar

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It always seemed strange to me as well. Who is this person, and why should I value their opinion?

[–] RGB3x3 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Even worse when a "news" article is just embedding a bunch of Tweets from random people and calling it news.

[–] elbarto777 3 points 11 months ago

Which the BBC has done. Awful.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago

Editor: The article is great! All we need now is a quote from social media and we can publish.

Journalist: We haven't been able to find anything suitable, everyone thinks this story is satire.

Editor: Then just post one yourself and then quote that! But don't reference your name, that'll be a dead giveaway.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

Hard to cite a GPT reference.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

For me at least, "said" has a link to https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR7mbL8g/

That link only takes me to the front page, but perhaps if someone has a tiktok account that goes to a video (a tik? Tok? Whatever it's called).