[jbigelow76]

Many subreddits are simply themed containers of creative writing.

One really annoying trend I am seeing in some mainstream news publishing online is repackaging social media clips and "reporting" on them as if NewsWeek breaking a story, Reddit and TikTok seem to be the current darlings of this form of phone it in journalism.

[BeFlatXIII]

It makes it easy to play games with journalistic integrity if you have a beef with a local paper and want them to get egg on their face. Then again, this is not unique to the internet—only easier. It was a major plot point in the final season of The Wire.

[Kluny]

Yeah, it's trash and you're almost always better off just reading the original story (if you haven't already, since it was probably on the front page of a major subreddit).