[orasis]

Isn’t it ironic that journalists themselves aggregate content in a way that discourages the reader from clicking through to the primary source?

This type of summarization and aggregation seems to be exactly what consumers want.

[viraptor]

Bad journalists do. The good ones quote/link their sources. You can do the general idea of journalism in many ways. (Tabloid writers are journalists too... in theory)

[thunkshift1]

And where does one find this ‘good’ journalism? It seems to be the exception rather than the norm as majority of the articles are summarizations, opinions, rip offs from reddit, clickbaits that quote from ‘experts’ or ‘sources’ who or not named

[viraptor]

The most recent on my mind: Polymatter videos. For example the latest one https://youtu.be/H5EF8v0iGBs and the sources https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1ph76k8iQVG5U1K2qpIup...

[CaptainFever]

Is this about syndication or "facts can't be copyrighted"? Genuine question, I'm not sure how that works.

[goodoldneon]

Clicking through to what, in person interviews with sources? Your comparison makes no sense

[mminer237]

My impression is that most news now is just reported by a single source or a wire service, and 90+% of sites just write their own article based on that first news site's article.