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by ungzd 3550 days ago
Full browser window videos with sound to exploit pity, blaming tech industry. Had Washington Post descend to that yellow press levels? Or it always had at this level?
3 comments

Oh no! Full browser window videos!? How horrible!
I didn't feel the video was exploitive. It communicated the reality in a perspective the article couldn't, from the first person point of view of a miner.
What's your point? That the article is overdramatizing the issue?
It's pathos to make more money. Analogue to clickbait. Hollywood-like pity factory. This media popcorn industry is more responsible for exploiting poor africans, not creators of mobile phones.