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by cristianpascu 3035 days ago
It's slightly harder to fill a whole newspaper page with non-nuanced text than it is to fill a tweet.
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Filling a whole paper is harder than writing a tweet, sure, but nuance has nothing to do with it.

It is very common to see an entire page of arguments all pointing in the same direction. It can be even worse because it allows for a sneaky progression from well accepted facts to whatever bullshit they want you to believe.

For example a tweet may go "Chlorinated water kills thousands of people every year". An full article may start with actual scientific research about how chlorine can kill, then talk about some specific group of people who don't drink chlorine water and are healthy, follow up by talking about some people making profit off water chlorination, throw in some stories about decadent billionaires and then deliver the final message. Nothing about that is nuanced.

Yet somehow the Daily Mail manages it every single day.