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by gruez 983 days ago
>Browse the other "stories" on that news portal and it becomes clear that it is a right-wing populist click bait portal which tries to incite rage against the German state by hand-picking stories and amplifying them similar to tabloids like Bild.

Isn't that literally the job of the media to "hand pick stories"? How is this any different than media outlets "hand picking" stories that involve police interactions going badly, when most police interactions end up fine?

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ImHO a somewhat serious media outlet should report such stories of course but otherwise remain neutral and refrain from "coloring" such stories with opinion and rage-bait. Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but this new thing reeks too much of Buzzfeed, Fox News, RT or Bild.
Not to mention the grey lady, NPR, MSNBC and their ilk...