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Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

> I personally decided I'm going to avoid political discussion for a
> while, take a break.  There's more to life than just a single news story
> these days.
> 
> But, not if you're a news site, apparently!  My RSS reader shows that on
> the NYTimes newsfeed, 12 of 28 articles currently on deck are about the
> president-elect.  If I filtered, nearly half the feed would disappear.
> 
> Don't let them fool you: the mainstream news is thrilled they have a
> chance to sell papers via outrage.  They did great the last time around.
> 
> Me, I'm going to turn my attention to other things for a while.

[applause]

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