• TheBeege@lemmy.world
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    Bias fucking bullshit. Why is Joe Rogan named and not the podcast that usurped him? Media fucking blows

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      They name it in the first sentence, and at least for me, given it’s longevity and word of mouth I know what Joe Rogan implies, but if you said “MeidasTouch” in the headline, I’d have no idea the implication of that shift, since I haven’t listened to either of the two.

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          You can, but clickbait rags want you to click to find out what they intentionally left out of the title.

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          If they just put the name I would have no idea who they are. Writing the full name plus “,an anti-Trump podcast” would be a really long title with extra info they get in the first sentence.

          Wanting to stop at the headline is a bad habit. Just click the article and complain if the name isn’t right there.

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            “Anti-Trump podcast MeidasTouch dethrones Rogan in charts”

            That’s two fewer words than the original headline. 🤷‍♂️

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            Be that as it may, we know that the majority of readers wouldn’t read past the title. Knowing this, NewsWeek still decided to not include the name of the anti-trump podcast which dethroned Joe Rogan’s podcast. I think this is the bias that they are referring to.

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      Wdym? It literally says the podcast name is “The MeidasTouch Podcast” in the first sentence.

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        Per the other comment, headlines. Internet dwellers read the headline to decide whether or not to read something. You can think of a headline as involuntary information injection.

        So Newsweek wants everyone to see Joe Rogan’s name but not MeidasTouch.