[dmazin]

While NYT etc mostly stand back as the U.S. crosses the rubicon, what started as a freaking gadget review site seems to employ nearly all the journalists with actual gusto left in America.

[zetanor]

The gusto to post an Amazon affiliate listicle?

[trial3]

this article has 19 paragraphs of text in just the main article body, making three recommendations.

it’s pretty rich to both decry media literacy issues in sibling comments while completely elastically using the word “listicle”

[diggyhole]

VIVA LA REVOLUTION LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE!

[butlike]

I don't know...the subject matter stirs the pot nicely in my opinion

[internet_points]

I read it as an insightful analysis of the concept of tear-gassing crowds disguised as an affiliate listicle.

Bonus points if someone actually puts some money towards a human journalist by just treating it as an affiliate listicle.

[atwrk]

I mean if you'd only care about the affiliate revenue, there probably are better niches to serve than citizens looking to protect themselves from tear gas.

[miltonlost]

They have many other articles directly addressing the rising fascism. That you also only see this as an "affiliate link" without grokking the larger theme of "Gas Masks for tear gas" and how that relates to what ICE is doing to the US is part of the larger problem with contemporary media illiteracy.

[nullhole]

Wired is doing pretty well on that front, too

[tjcvirage]

Are you thinking of Wirecutter? They are a sub brand of NYT, whereas The Verge is part of Vox Media

[michaelt]

According to Wikipedia's article on The Verge [1] "up to nine of Engadget's writers, editors, and product developers, including editor-in-chief Joshua Topolsky, left AOL, the company behind that website, to start a new gadget site."

So apparently they were once a 'gadget site'

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Verge

[sollewitt]

Also Wired and weirdly People Magazine (and before they were all fired J17)

[Aunche]

It's disappointing that people increasingly expect news to be propaganda for their own side. The news is meant to be a source of information. You don't have to agree with everything an article has to say to get useful information from it. There is no shortage of quasi-revolutionary content on the internet if that's what you seek.

[acessoproibido]

News has always been propaganda for one side, its just sometimes more or less obvious.

Personally I prefer the ones that make it clear where they stand as opposed to subtly influencing you while masquerading as "neutral".

[conception]

When information is politicized (eg do vaccines work) then being a source of information can been seen as propaganda for your side.

[add-sub-mul-div]

It's disappointing that people don't know the difference between having a stance and propaganda.

[direwolf20]

What does that mean?