Sad, the state of news today. Entertainment trumps anything else. Here where I live most of the lead stories of the evening news are sports stories. Who's been traded. What they tweeted. I'm left to go to the BBC news for real US news stories.
One of the worst offenders is Yahoo. They have the most non-news of any site I frequent. Recently they had a link to a story of a man that had two hearts fail. Two hearts you say? That's what they story's headline read, yet in the story the admitted freely that they purposely mistyped the lead, and in fact the man had a pace maker and a heart. They'll use any headline to attract clicks. Yahoo will also use old recycled news from decades ago, like how credit card numbers are verified. And of course they churn out all the latest non-news of Hollywood, like who has changed their hair color or what dress they wore out the night before.
It's becoming a chore to sift through all this driftwood they call news to find something worth reading.
What sites irk you?
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